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NEW TOEK 

AS TT WAS AND AS IT IS; 

GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF THE CITY 

FROM ITS SETTLEMENT TO THE PRESENT TIME; 

FORMING A COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE 

Great Metropolis of the Nation, 



INCLUDING THE 



CITY OF BROOKLYN 

- AND THE STTEEOraDING CITIES AND VILLAGES; 

TOGETHER WITH A 

Classified Busih"ess Dieeotoet. 

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 



COMPILED BY 
Author of "Influence of Climate in North and South A.merica^" etc.™ ~ 






137SJ .cT/V 




Published by D. Van Nostrand, 23 Murray Street, and for sale by Booksellers generally. 

1876. 



VvA/.Va.'. V^'n/' 



Entered according to Act of Congress, in 1876, 

By John Disturnell, 

In the office of tlie Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C. 



•HI 



Printed by John Polhemus, 102 Nassau Street, New York. 



TO THE PUBLIC. 

IN THE Compilation of " New York as It Was and as It Is," for 1876, the 
Author wishes to acknowledge the many favors conferred and the ready- 
information given to make this volume reliable and complete. Great care and 
labor has been bestowed in order to render it useful, so as to serve the wants 
of the public during the coming Centennial Celebration of our National In- 
dependence. 

Encouraged by the steady patronage bestowed during the past forty years, 
on similar publications, the Compiler feels warranted in speaking of his own 
labors: In 1833 a similar Work to the above was issued, entitled "New York as 
It Is,^' and continued yearly until 1837; then followed the " Pictvresque Beauties 
of the Hudson Biver," 1835-36, — " Thirty-three Miles Around New York,'' 1839, — 
"New York State Gazetteer" 1M2,—" New York State Register," 1843 to 1858, 
annually, — "Picturesque Tourist," 1844 to 1848, — " Raikcay and Steamship 
Guide," 1846 to I860,—" United States Register, or Blue Book," 1851 to 1875,— 
^' Trip Through the Lakes and River St. Lawrence," 1857 to 1S1I2,—" Influence of 
Climate in North and South America," 1867, — " Across the Continent and Around 
the World," 1871 to 187S,—-' Sailing on the Great Lakes and Rivers of America," 
1874, — " Guide to the Island of Mackinac and Its Vicinity," 1875; Also, several other 
valuable publications, comprising, altogether, upwards of eighty volumes of dif- 
ferent sizes, issued by the Compiler during the last forty-two years. 

The preparation of the present volume, with its maps and embellishments, 
has been one of the most laborious and costly of the series of Statistical and 
Geographical Works issued during the above period, while an earnest attempt 
has been made to make this publication in every respect full and reliable as 
regards a faithful Description of the City of New York, with all its varied 
institutions, including the City of Brooklyn and other Cities and Villages in its 
immediate vicinity. 

J. DISTURNELL. 

New York, January, 1876. 



EMBELLISHMENTS. 



Pagb. 

1. Xev Yoek Harbor, from the Battery— Frontispiece. 

2. Battery axd Castle G.^rden, from Xorth River, 

3. Beble House— Astor Place, ...... 

4. Old Custom House — Now Sub-Treasury Building, 

5. "Washln-gton Monument — Union Square, .... 

6. Trls'ity Cbxtich — Broadway, ...... 

7. Cooper Union— Eighth Street, ..... 

8. Young Men's Christlvn Assocl\tion Bullden'G, 

9. Roman Catholic Cathedral— Fifth Avenue, (comer olst Street) 

10. Castle Garden, from the Batter}-, ..... 

11. OcE-\N Steadier Leaving the Port of Xew York, 

12. Steamboat Landinc — Pier Xo. 1, Xorth River, . 

13. Brooklyn Xavy Yard, ...... 

14. New York from Governor's Island, .... 

Old !ilAP of the City of ZSTew York, compiled during the "War of the 
Revolution— 1782. — M-\p of the Hudson River. 

^Iap of the City of Xew York, showing Railroad Routes, Etc. 



INTRODUCTIOISr. 

^EW York, the Great Metropolis of the Nation, and most favored City in 
America, owes its commercial prosperity and great wealth mainly to its natural 
position, as regards land and water— the Island being surrounded by tide-waters 
and navigable rivers, with a capacious and well-protected harbor contiguous to 
the Atlantic Ocean. This, in connection with its healthy climate and fruitful 
soil, by which it is surrounded— while lying near the middle of the Temperate 
Zone — altogether make its position unrivaled either in the Old or New World. 
Then comes its system of internal communication by means of the Hudson 
River, the East River and Long Island Sound, together with Canals and Rail- 
roads leading west to the Great Lakes, and to almost every other point of the 
compass- reaching Southward to the Gulf of Mexico, and Northward to near the 
Gulf of St. Lawrence— the Railroads, by numerous lines, crossing the Highlands 
and mountain barriers and the fertile Valley of the Mississippi, penetrating to 
the base of the Rocky Mountains, then extending still further westward by one 
main line to the Pacific Ocean — all pouring an immense amount of wealth into 
this favored mart. 

Ocean Steamers of the largest class are enabled to enter the harbor and ap- 
proach the wharves at all seasons of the year, carrying annually an immense 
amount of merchantable products from every quarter of the globe, as well as 
a great number of emigrants, and cabin passengers, to and from Europe and 
other parts of the world — altogether making the Port of New York the largest 
and most favored commercial mart on the face of the globe. 

The completion of the Erie Canal in 1826, the commencement of Railroads in 
1831, the introduction of Croton Water and the creation of the Central Park, have 
all greatly benefited the city. Now, the demand is for a system of Rapid Transit to 
accommodate the wants of the growing population of New York and its suburbs. 

The above vast advantages afforded by Nature and Art should be justly ap. 
predated by the citizens at large, tending to make them the most prosperous 
people on the face of the globe, now numbering upwards of a million souls 
within the city bounds, and another million within a radius of fifteen miles — 
making upwards of two million inhabitants — forming, as it were, one commu- 
nity, and possessing untold wealth with most of the comforts of life combined. 
The above constitute the glory of the Empire City and its Environs. 

Notwithstanding the above favorable condition and advantages of the City of 
New York, produced by natural causes, we unfortunately here see gilded wealth 



VI INTKODUCTION. 

and luxury on the one liand, and squalid poverty and distress in contiguity: while 
intemperance and crime are on the increase. Next in importance to the above 
evils is the enormous City Debt ($120,000,000), excessive taxation, now amount- 
ing to $30,000,000 annually, and the robberies committed by dishonest politi- 
cians, who, in a measure, rule the city, causing many to doubt the possibility of 
large cities being well governed by republican institutions where universal 
suffrage prevails. 

The above unmitigated evils, or crimes, flowing from ignorance and a too 
eager desire to accumulate wealth, marring our republican form of government^ 
cause DISGRACE to rest on this otherwise favored Metropolis, where all nation- 
alities alike congregate and enjoy the privileges of free institutions. 

The unfortunate reverse which the City of New York and the country at 
large has recently experienced, owing ia part to the above demoralizing causes, 
and the depreciation of our National Currency ; together with reckless extrava- 
gance, ought to teach us a lesson of moderation, and cause us, as a people, to 
correct and avoid a repetition of such great evils. Too long has the dishonest 
politician, the unfeeling usurer, and the greedy speculator had the ascendency. 
Let the favored, the middle and the intelligent laboring classes of society combine 
for self-defense — return to industrious and frugal habits, and learn wisdom from 
sad experience. 

J. D. 



CO^TEISTTS, 



PAET I. PAGE. 

New York as It Was. 

Discovery and Settlement of 
North America — Early Settle- 
ment of Manhattan Island — New 
York at the Time of the Capitula- 
tion to the English — Old Land 
Marks in 1770— The City of New 
York in 1776— Old and NeAv Names 
of Streets— New York Directory for 
1786, etc. — New York after the 
Peace of 1783 — Land Marks of the 
Days of the Revolution — Wall 
Street — Rerainiscenses of New 
York — Description of New York in 
1800— Broadway, Banks, etc.— Tri- 
nity Church, etc. — First Steam- 
boats—Mayors of New York— Cen- 
sus Returns— Rich Men of New 
York— Forty Years Since, or New 
York as It Was— Ocean Steamers 
and Railroads, 1851-52 — Chrono- 
logical Sketch of Important Events 
— Old Institutions — Formation of 
Wards — British Occupation of the 
City of New York, 1776 to 1783. . . 1^50 

PAET II. 

New York as It Is. 

Description of the City and 
County of New York — Public 
Buildings, etc. — United States Gov- 
ernment Buildings — Monuments — 
Public Parks, Colleges, Churches, 
etc. — Croton Aqueduct, etc. — 
Schools, Academies, Hospitals, 
Asylums, etc. — City Government, 
Courts, etc. — City Debt — Salaries 
fixed by Law — Markets — Monied 
Institutions — Manufactures, Com- 
merce, etc. — Avenues and Streets — 
City Railroads — Life in New York — 
Census of the City of New York 
from 1790 to 1875— Railroads Di- 
verging from the City of New York, 
— Summary of Statistics, copied 
from the Annual Report of the 
New York City Mission for 1875. . . 51-70 



PAET III. PAGE. 

Municipal Government, 187f>— Ex- 
ecutive Departments — Finance De- 
partment—Department of Public 
Works, etc.— Department of Pub- 
lic Parks — Police Department — 
Department of Public Charities — 
Fire Department— Board of Health 

— Board of Education — County 
Officers— County Clerk's Office — 
Sheriff's Office— Surrogate's Office 
— Tax Commissioners, etc. — Civil 
Courts — Supreme Court — Supe- 
rior Court — Court of Common Pleas 
— Criminal CouRTS--Court of 
Oyer and Terminer — Marine Court 
— Court of Special Sessions — Police 
Courts — Court of Arbitration — 
Port Wardens, etc.— United States 
Circuit and District Courts, etc. — 
Health Statistics — Census of the 
City, etc. — Table Showing the Debt 
and Taxes of New York — Public 
Charities — Dispensaries, Asy- 
lums, Homes, etc 78-88 

PAET IV. 

Colleges, Academies, etc.— Colum- 
bia College — School of Law, Col- 
umbia College — College of Physi- 
cians and Surgeons of New York 
— Bellevue Hospital, etc. — Univer- 
sity of the City of New York — Col- 
lege of the City of New York — 
Union Theological Seminary — The- 
ological Seminary of the Protestant 
Episcopal Church — College of St. 
Francis Xavier — St. John's College 

— Manhattan College — Rutger's 
Female College — American Tract 
Society — Medical Institutions 89-100 

PAET V. 

Art, Literary, Scientific and Mis- 
cellaneous Societies, Libraries, 
etc. — Metropolitan Museum of Art 
— National Academy of Design — 
Cooper Union for the Advance- 
ment of Science and Art — New 
York Historical Society— General 



Vlll 



CONTENTS. 



Society of Mechanics and Trades- 
men—American Institute of the 
City of New York — American 
Geographical Society— Association 
for the Advancement of Science 
and Art — New Masonic Hall — 
Grand Lodge— Masonic Societies — 
New England Society — St. An- 
drew's Society— St. George's So- 
ciety—St. Nicholas Society— Ger- 
man Society — Public Libraries 
OF THE City of New York — Astor 
Library — Lenox Libraiy, etc. — 
Places of Amusement — Club 
Houses— Chamber of Commerce- 
Court of Arbitration— New York 
Produce Exchange, etc. — Board of 
Trade— New York Stock Exchange 
—United States Collector's Office 
— Naval Office, etc.— United States 
Assistant Treasurer's Office — As- 
say Office — Internal Revenue 101-120 

PAET VI. 
Religious asd Beist;vole>'T Insti- 
tutions — American Bible Society 
— American Home Missionary, etc. 
— Protestant Episcopal Institutions 
— Presbyterian Institutions — Board 
of Missions of the Reformed Church 
— Baptist City Mission, etc. — Meth- 
odist Missionary Society, Book 
Concern, Sunday School Union, 
etc. — National Temperance Society 
— Youn^ Men's Christian Associa- 
tion — Churches in New York 

— Pastors, etc. — Missions and 
Churches for Seamen — City Mis- 
sionary Societies, Sabbath Schools, 
etc. — Cemeteries in New York and 
BrookljTi — Benevolent Associa- 
tions — Asylums — Charities — Chris- 
tian Associations — City Missions — 
Dispensaries — Homes and Home 
Missions — Foreign Missions — In- 
stitutions for Children — Prison As- 
sociations — Reform Associations — 
Seamen's Societies — State Chari- 
ties, etc.— Society for the Preven- 
tion of Cruelty to Children— So- 
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty 
to Animals — City Hospitals- 
New York Hospital, etc 121-154 

PAET VII. 
Parks, Public Squares, Streets, 
etc. — Battery — Union Square, Ma- 
dison Square, etc.— Central Park 

— Objects of Interest — Hackney 



Coaches— Cartmen— Avenues and 
Streets — New York City Railroad 
Routes — Omnibus Lines — Rapid 
Transit — New York Elevated Rail- 
road — Gilbert Railroad Company — 
Gas Light Companies — Delaware 
and Hudson Canal Company — Fer- 
ries — Location of Piers — Domestic 
and Foreign Postage — Population 
of New I'ork by Wards, 1800 to 
1875 — Criminal Statistics 155-1 V9 

PAET VIII. 

Newspapers and Periodicals in 
New York — New York Associated 
Press — City Press Association — 
Steamers Sailing from Ameri- 
can to Foreign Ports— Steamers 
Runnnig from New York to the 
West Indies, South America, etc. 
— Pacific ;Mail Steamships — Steam- 
ers Sailing from New York to 
Domestic Ports — Hudson River 
Steamers — Long Island Sound 
Steamers— Distances and Mail Time 
from New York — Railroad Com- 
panies Having Offices in New York 
— Express Companies — Telegraph 
Companies — Foreign Consuls 180-196 

PAET IX. 

Growth of Banks and Banhk Capi- 
tal — Safety Fund Banks, etc. — 
New York City Banks, Rules and 
Regulations — Banks, National and 
State — Rise and Growth of Savings 
Banks — Banks for Savings in the 
City of New York — Loan and Tinist 
Companies — Safe Deposit Compa- 
nies — Money Values — Gold Coins, 
etc. — Legal Rates of Interest — 
Bills of Exchange — Rise and 
Growth of Fire and Marine Insur- 
ance Companies — Fire Insurance 
Companies — Marine Insurance 
Companies — Life Insurance Com- 
panies, Rise and Growth of--Bank- 
ers in the City of New York — Mon- 
ied Institutions m New^ York City. 197-222 

PAET Z. 

Description of the City of Brook- 
lyn, AND Other Cities in the 
Vicinity of New York 223-264 

Cities and Villages, Fifteen 
Miles Abound New York 265-274 

Classified Business Directory. 275-294 

Advertisements i.-viii. 



ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS, 



BUILDING STATISTICS— 1876. 

Tlie whole number of Buildings on Manhattan Island, according to the 
report (>f Walter W. Adams, Superintendent of the Department of Buildings, 
is 84,200, distributed as follows : 

Tenements 20,485 

Brick dwellings, 2nd class 16,172 

Frame dwellings, all classes 15.799 

Stone dwellings, 1st class 7,136 

Brick dwellings, 1st class 5,052 

Stone dwellings, 2nd class 2,142 

French flats 198 

Hotels, 1st and 2nd class 172 

Stores --- 8,298 

Stables 5,099 

Factories 2,724 



Churches 


425 


Banks 


67 


Hospitals and Asylums 

Breweries . . 


56 


Halls ... 


45 


Public Buildings 

Railroad Depots 

Theatres 


88 
28 
27 


Markets , 


11 


^Miscellaneous 


147 


No. of Dwelling Houses 


... 67,156 



Bank of the State of New York, ;$3 

William Street. Reorganized 1876. 
Capital, 1800,000. W. H. Hays, Pres. ; 
Henry Morgan, Vice-Pres. ; George R. 
A. Ruketts, Cashier. 



North British and Mercantile Ins. 
Co., of London and Edinburgh. 54 
William Street, cor. Pine Street. Ezra 
White, Chas. E. White and S. P. 
BT.A<jnEN, Managers. {See Advertise- 
nient.) 



New Yoi-k Board of Trade, 162 and 

164 Broadway. See page 118. 



Delano C. Calvin, Surr 
Stephen de Van Schaick. 



Mechanics' Fire Ins. Co.,(Brooklyn), 

165 Broadway, Capital $150,000. Sru- 

plus $158,000. John H. Baker, Pres. ; 

'ogate, versus i Daniel Chauncey, Vice-Pres. ; Walter 

j Nichols, Secretary. 



I^DEX. 



Academies and Schools 61-89 

Academy of Design, National 102 

Academy of Music 115-225 

Aldermen, Brooklyn 230 

Aldermen, New York 71 

Albany and Troy Steamboats 191 

Alms-house 55 

Alphabetical list of Streets in Brooklyn. • 247 
Alphabetical list of Streets in New york.161-168 

American Baptist Home Mission 121 

Bible Society 121 

and Foreign Bible Society 126 

and Foreign Missi'^ns 122 

Geographical Society 105-110 

Home Missionary Society 122 

Institute 104-llu 

Missionary Society 127 

Ship-Masters Association 117 

Society for the Prevention of 

Cruelty to Animals 152 

Tract Society 99 

Amusements, places of 115 

Apprentices' Library 110 

Assay Office, United States 56 

Association for Adv. of Science and Art 106 

Associated Press 184 

Astor Library 109 

Astoria 262 

Asylums 61-144 

Atlantic Dock 223 

Avenues and Streets in Brooklyn 247 

Avenues and Streets in New York 64-161 

Bank Clearing House 200 

Bank of New York 24-42 

Bankers 230-221 

Banks, Brooklyn 235 

Banks, Rules and Regulations 199 

National and State 200 

Rise and Growth of 197 

Savings 205-206 

in New York, 1805. 32 

Baptist Churches 129 

Baptist City Mission 126 

Baptist Societies, &c 126 

Bar Association Ill 

Battery 155 

Bay and Islands of New York 52 

Bayonne, N. J 267 

Bay Side 263 

Bedlow's Island 264 

Bellevue Hospital 93-154 

Belleville, N. J 269 

Benevolent Associations 121-144 

Benevolent Societies 145 

Bergen Point, N.J 267 

Bible House 60-121 

Bible Societies 121 

Bills of Exchange 210 

BlackweiTs Island 55 

Blackwell'y Island Bridge 247 

Bloomfield, N. J 269 

Board of Aldermen 71 

Com. for Foreign Missions 122 

Church Erection. 125 

Domestic Missions 126 

Education 77-127 

Fire Underwriters 211 



Board of Foreign Missions 125-126 

Health 77 

Home Missions 125 

Marme Underwriters 216 

Trade 118 

Importers and Grocers 118 

Bowling Green 155 

British Occupation of New York 50 

Broadway 31-64 

Brooklyn, City of. Streets, &c 223-260 

Capitulation of New York 18-50 

Castle Garden 155 

Cemeteries 143-243 

Census of Brooklyn 234 

Hudson County, N.J... 268 

New York 38-67-178 

Central Railroad of New Jersey 267 

Central Park 157-158 

Commissioners 74 

Ccntreville, N. J 267 

Chamber of Commerce 116 

Chamber of Life Insurance 217 

Cliaritable Institutions 76 

Charities, Bureau of 146 

Charter of the City of New York 19 

Cliarter Officers 25 

Christian Associations 146 

Chronological Sketch of New York 45-48 

Churches and Colleges 59 

Churches, Baptist, &c 129-140 

Churches, Bro( klyn 237-243 

Ciuirches for Seamen 141 

Cities and Villages 267-274 

City and County of Nevv' York 51 

City Debt, Brooklyn 233 

City of New York 63 / 

City Departments 71-78 ^/''^ 

City Hall and Park 154-155 

City Hospitals 152 

City Missionary Societies 142 

City Missions 147 

City Mission, Report of 69-70 

City Officers 71 

Brooklyn 230 

" Salaries of 63 

City Prison 54 

City Railroads, Brooklyn 244 

" New York 169 

Civil and Criminal Courts 80-81 

Claremont, N. J 267 

Classified Directory 275-294 

Clifton, S. 1 270 

Club Houses 116 

Coaches and Carriages 159 

Coal and Iron Exchange 117 

Collect Pond 17 

Colleges and Universities 59-89-96 

College Point, L. 1 273 

College of New York 96 

College of Physicians and Surgeons 92 

Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute 228 

College of St. Francis Xavier 98 

Columbia College 89-90 

Commerce of New York 64 

Commissioners of Emigra ion 80 

" Public Charities 76 

" Quarantine 83 



X. 



NEW YOKK AS IT IS. 



Communipaw, N. J 267 

Congregational Churches 130 

Consuls, Foreign ^^^ 196 

Coney Island 263-270 

Cooper Union 102-111 

Corporation Attorney. , 74 

Cotton Exchange 11' 

County Clerk's Office <8 

Court House (New) 54 

Court of Arbitration 83-117 

Court of Special Sessions 82 

Courts, City and County 80-81 

District Courts 81 

Marine 81 

Police 82 

Supreme 80 

Superior 80 

United States 83-84 

Criminal Statistics 179 

Croton Aqueduct 60 

Commissioners 73 

Reservoir 60 

Custom House, United States 55 

Collector, &c 119 

Naval Office, Surveyor's Office. . . 119 

Cypress Hills Cemetery 244 

Daily, Weekly and Monthly Publications 180-183 

Deaths in the City of New York 84 

Debt of Brooklyn 233 

" Jersey City 268 

" New York 63 

Delaware and Hudson Canal Company. . 174 

Department of Docks 74 

Public Charities 76-233 

Public Parks 74-75 

Public Works 73 

" Buildings 77 

Discovery and Set. of North America. . . 13 

Dispensaries 93-147 

Distances from New York 191 

District Attorney's Office 81 

Domestic and Foreign Missions 122-149 

Domestic and Foreign Postage 177 

Dutch West India Company 15 

Early History of New York 14 

Ear and Eye Infirmary 94 

East Orange, N. J 269 

East River Steamboats 192 

Edgewater, S. I 271 

Educational Societies 147 

Elevated Railroads 173-245 

Elizabeth, N. J 267 

Elizabethport 267 

Elm Park, S. 1 271 

Emigration, Commissioners of 80 

Englewood, N. J 269 

Episcopal Churches 136 

Episcopal Societies 123-124 

Erie Railroad 269 

Express Offices 193 

Excise Department 74 

Excursions Down ihe Bay 270 

Excursions on the Hudson 273 

Ferries 174-227 

First Steamboat on the Hudson 37 

Finance Dep;irtment 72 

Fire Department 77 

Insurance Companies ' 211 

Underwriters 241 

First OfficialJournal 28 



Fishing Banks 271 , 

Flatbush, Census of 234'- 

Flushing 263-273 

Foreign Consuls 196 

" Express Companies 194 

" Missions 149-122 

Formation of Wards 49 

Fort Columbus 264 

Hamilton 264 

Lee, N.J 27S 

Richmond 264 

Schuyler 264 

Washington 273 

Fortifications 264 

Forty Years Since 40-42 

Free Academy {see New Tm± College).... 

" Churches 141 

'• Reading Rooms Ill 

Gas Light Companies 173 

Geographical Society 104 

Glasgow Steamers 185 

Glen Cove,' L. 1 273 

Gold Exchange 119 

Governor's Island 264 

Gowanus Bay 223 

Grand Central Depot 274 

Greenpoint {see Brooklyn) 

Greenville, N. J 267 

Greenwood Cemetery 143-243 

Growth of Banks and Bank Capital 197 

Growth of the City of New York 24 

Hackensack, N. J 270 

Hackney Coaches and Fares 159 

Hall of Records 54 

Hallett's Point 264 

Hamilton, Alexander 35 

Harbor Masters 83- 

Harbor of New York 271 

Harlem Railroad 41-27^ 

Havre Steamers 185 

Health Department 77-231 

Health Statistics 84 

Hell Gate 272. 

Hendrick Hudson 14 

High Bridge 273 

Historical Events 45-263 

Society 103 

" " Long Island 229 

Hoboken 268 

Home for the Destitute 148 

Home Missions 148 

Hospitals 61-153 

Hotels {see Classified Directm^y) 287 

Hudson Co., N. J., Census of 268 

Hudson or North River 273 

Hudson River Railroad 272 

Hudson River Steamboats 191 

Hunter's Point 262 

Important Events 45-48 

Importers' and Grocers' Board of Trade. 118 

Institute, American 104 

" Mechanics' 103 

Institution for the Blind 144 

for Children 149 

for the Poor 144 

Literary and Scientific 101 

Medical 100 

Insurance Co's., Growth of. Fire, &c 211 

Fire and Marine 212-216 

Life 217-219 



INDEX. 



Xl, 



Intenial Revenue Officers 120 

Islands Contiguous to New York 264 

Jamaica, L. 1 263 

Jersey City 268 

Jewish Churches 130 

Keyport, N. J 271 

Kings County Courts 233 

" " Census of 234 

" " Officers 232 

Lake View, N.J 270 

Landmarks of the Days of the Revolution 26 

Law Department 74 

" Library 114 

" Schools 91 

Legal Rates of Interest 210 

Lenox Library 112 

Libraries, Public 109-114 

Life Insurance Companies 217 

" " Rise and Growth of 218 

Life in New York 66 

Lines of Ocean Steamers 185 

" River Steamers 190-191 

Literary and Scientific Institutions 101 

Liverpool Steamers 185 

Loan and Trust Companies 207 

Long Branch 270 

Long Island 263 

College Hospital ; . 225 

City 262 

Historical Society 229 

Lunatic Asylums 145 

Lutheran Churches 131 

Magazines and Periodicals 180-183 

Manhattan College 98 

" Settlement of 14 

" Waterworks 45 

Manhattanville 273 

Mauufactures and Commerce 64 

Marine Court 81 

Marine Board of Underwriters 216 

Marine Insurance Companies 216 

Maritime Association 115 

" Defenses 264 

Markets 63 

Masonic Hall 106 

" Societies 108 

Mayors of Brooklyn 230 

New York 37-71 

Medical Colleges 92 

" Societies 100 

Mercantile Library 115 

Methodist Book Concern 127 

" Churches 132 

Metropolitan Museum of Arts 101 

Missionary Societies 127 

" "of the Methodist 

Church 127 

Money Values, Gold Coins 208-209 

Monied Institutions 222 

Monuments 57 

Mornmg Side Park 156 

Mount Clair, N. J 269 

Nassau Water Works 227 

National Academy of Design 102 

" Temperance Society 128 

Naturalization Bureau 80 

Nautical School 78 

Navy Yard, Brooklyn 226 

Newark, N. J 268 

New Brighton, S. 1 271 



New England Society 108 

Newspapers and Periodicals 180-185 

New York Aldermen 71 

Bay and Harbor 5^271 

Board of Education 77 

Board of Health 77 

Board of Trade 118 

Bridge Company 245 

Central Park 157-158 

Chamber of Commerce 116 

Charter Officers 25-71 

Churches 129-140 

City Government 62-71 

City Library Ill 

City Mission & Tract Society. 142 

City Railroads 169-171 

College 96 

College of Physicians & Surg., 92 

County Officers 78 

Courts, City and County 80-83. 

Courts, United States 84 

Cotton Exchange 117 

Criminal Statistics 179' 

Croton Aqueduct 60 

Department of Buildings 77 

Department of Public Works. 73 

Description of 51-53. 

Directory of 1786 23-24 

Early History of 14-17 

Executive Department 72 

Finance Department 72 

Fire Department 77 

Forty Years Since 40-42 

Gas Companies 173 

Gold Exchange 119 

Health Department 77 

Historical Society 103. 

Hospital 153. 

In 1664, 1770, '76, '83, '90, 1800.18-30-50' 

Law Department 74 

Law Institute Library 114 

Medical Institutions 100 

Merchants' Exchange 55 

Police 62-75- 

Population of 178 

Post Office 56. 

Produce Exchange 116- 

Public Charities 76-87 

Public Schools 61 

Salaried Officers 295-29(> 

Sheriff's Office 78 

Society Library 114 

Society for the Prevention of 

Cruelty to Children 15-2 

Stock Exchange 118 

State Census 8.5. 

Taxes 86- 

Theological Seminary 97 

University 94-95. 

Wards, Formation of 4!> 

Water Works 60- 

Normal and High School 78 

Northern Railroad of New Jersey 269 

North Shore, Staten Island 271 

Ocean Steamers and Railroads 43-44 

Sailing to Europ'n Ports 185-187 

" " West Indies, &c. 188 

" " Domestic Ports.. 189 

Odd Fellows 108 

Old Institutions in New York 49/ 



Xll. 



NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



Old Landmarks in 1770 19-21 

Old and New Names of Streets 26 

Old Sugar House 27 

Omnibus Lines 1 '^ 

Orange, N. J 269 

Orphan Asylums 150 

Pacific Mail Steamships. . . 1»» 

Palisades 273 

Pamrapo, N. J 2b7 

Parks, Public 155 

Park Commissioners 231 

Passaic, N. J 2<9 

Paterson, N. J ^'J^ 

Pauperism and Crime 1'9 

Periodicals 180 

Philadelphia, New Railroads to 193 

Piers, List of 176 

Places of Amusement 115 

Police Courts 82 

Police Department 75 

Police Headquarters 55 

Population of Brooklyn - 234 

New York 178 

Port Richmond, S. 1 271 

Port Wardens 83 

Post Office Building 56 

Post Office and Rates of Postage 117 

I'resby terian Churches 133-134 

Prison Associations 150 

Produce Exchange 116 

Prospect Park, Brooklyn 224 

Public Administration 74 

Public Buildings 54 

Public Charities 70-87 

Public Parks 59-157-224 

Public Schools : 61-225 

Quarantine 83-271 

Quarterly Publications 184 

Quick Passages to European Ports 189 

Randall's Island 55 

Railroads in New York 41-66 

Railroads, List of 68 

Depots 274 

Offices 192 

Rapid Transit 172 

Rates of Postage 177 

Ravenswood 262 

Reformed Dutch Church. 25 

Reformed Churches 138 

Reform Societies 150 

Reformed Dutch Churches 25 

Religious Institutions 121 

Reminiscences of New York in 1790 29 

Rich Men of New York 38-40 

Riverside Park 156 

Roman Catholic Churches 138 

Rutger's Female Institute 99 

Rutherford Park, N. J 270 

Sabbath Schools 142 

Safe Deposit Companies 207 

Safety Fund Banks, &c 198 

Sailors' Snug Harbor 271 

Salaried Officers 295-296 

Sandy Hook 270 

Savings Banks 205-206 

" Statement of 204 

School of Law 91 

Schools, Public 61 

Scientific Institutions 101 

Sheriff's Office 79 



Ship Masters' Association 118 

Seamen's Societies 124-151 

Society Library of New York 114 

Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen. . . 103 

South Orange, N. J 269 

Spuyten Duyvil 273 

St. John's College 98 

St. John's Guild 109 

St. Andrew's Society 108 

St. George's Society 109 

St. Luke's Hospital 154 

St. Nicholas' Society 109 

St. Mary's Hospital 153 

Stage Lines 41 

State Charities 151 

Staten Island 271 

Station Houses 75* 

Steamboat Lines 191 

Steamboats on the Hudson 37 

Steamship Lines 191-192 

Stock Exchange 118 

Streets and Avenues, List of 161 

Street Railroads 169-171 

Suburbs of New lork 265-274 

Summary for 1875 69-70 

Sunday School Societies 151 

Sunday School Union 127 

Surrogate's Office 79 

Taxation 67 

Taxes 86 

Tax Commissions 79 

Telegraph Offices 194-195 

Temperance Societies 128-151 

Theatres 115 

Theological Seminaries 97 

Tombs, The 54 

Tompkins Square : . 156 

Tract Societies 151 

Trinity Church, History of , &c 35-36 

Trust Companies 207 

Union Perry Company 227 

Union Square 155 

Unitarian Churches 140 

Universalist Churches 140 

United States Assay Office 56-120 

Couris 83 

Custom House 55-119 

Navy Yard 226 

Post Office 56 

Treasurer's Office 120 

University of the City of New York 94 

Medical College 95 

Union Theological Seminary 97 

Vanderbili's Landing 271 

Wallabout Bay 223 

Wall Street 28 

Walton House 28 

Wards, Formation of 49 

Washington's Headquarters : 27* 

Washington Monument 58 

Park, Brooklyn 224 

Waverley, N. J 269 

Westchester County 272 

West Point 274 

Willett's Point 273 

Williamsburgh (See BrooMyn) 

Woodlawn Cemetery 143 

Yonkers, City of 273 

Young Men's Christian Association 128 

Brooklyn 237 



NEW YORK AS IT WAS. 



PART L 

DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT OF NORTH AMERICA. 

THE Discovery of North America by John and Sebastian Cabot in the year 
1497, five years after the discovery of the West Indies and South America 
by Columbus, is one of the most important events in modern history. Upwards 
of one hundred years followed in vain attempts to find a Northwest Passage to 
China by sailing northward toward Hudson and Baffin's Bay, thereby neglecting 
the settlement of the finest and richest portions of the globe, embracing what 
now constitutes the United States of America. 

The first permanent settlement by the English was made by the Cavaliers under 
the direction of Sir Walter Raleigh and others, who landed at Jamestown, 
Virginia, in May, 1607. In September, 1609, Heney Hudson discovered the 
Bay of New York, while sailing in the employ of the Dutch East India Com- 
pany. In 1614 a permanent settlement was made by the Dutch on the Island 
of Manhattan — then other settlers followed, locating on the banks^ of the 
Hudson and in New Jersey. 

The landing of the Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth, Mass., in December, 1620, is 
the next great event in colonization, and the settlement of portions of New 
Jersey and Delaware, which soon followed, by the Swedes, altogether formed 
the first germ of the early American character — together with the Quaker ele- 
ment introduced by William Penn and his followers, who settled in Pennsyl- 
vania in 1682, and foun .^i the City of Philadelphia. 

While Virginia can boast of the first Settlement within the bounds of the 
thirteen original States of the Union, the State of New York at the present time 
ranks as the Empire State, and the City of New York ranks as one of the most 
important cities of the World. 

The United States op America declared their Independence July 4, 1776, 
and now ranks as one of the largest and most favored Nations of the Globe* 
as regards area, population, commerce and wealth. 

13 



EARLY SETTLEMENT OF MANHATTAN ISLAND. 



" HENDRICK HUDSON," says a late learned writer,* " in April, 1609, under 
the direction of the Dutch East India Company, and for the purpose of finding a 
Northwest Passage— that great sea problem of the day— dared the perils of 
the Atlantic in the " Half-Moon,''^ of 80 tons, with a crew of twenty men. After 
stopping at various places along the coast, on the 11th of September, 1609, he» 
brought his little vessel to anchor in what is now the Bay of New York. 

" According to the Indian tradition, on the appearance of the " Half Moon," 
there was great consternation among the simple aborigines who then inhabited 
the dense forests where now this city stands. Some thought it an immensely 
large fish or huge monster of the sea, others that it was a very large hut. As it 
continued to move in a threatening manner towards the land, couriers were 
sent off to notify the scattered chiefs and their people of the phenomenon, 
and put them on their guard and to gather in the warriors. 

" These various Indians arriving in large numbers on the Manhattan shore, and 
viewing the strange object that was slowly moving toward them, concluded that 
it was a large canoe or house, in which the great Manitto or Supreme Being 
himself was, and that he was coming to visit them. The chiefs then deliberated 
in council how the great Manitto should be received. 

*' Scouts coming in declare the object to be a house of various colors, and 
crowded with living creatures. It now appeared certain that it was the great 
Manitto, bringing them some new kind of game. Soon there is hailing from 
the vessel in a strange tongue. Many now begin to run to the interior woods. 
The house or large canoe having stopped, a smaller canoe comes ashore with a 
man, altogether red from head to foot, and dressed differently from the others. 
In the mean time the chiefs and wise men had formed a large circle, and calmly 
and in resigned silence awaited the awful visitor. The red-clothed man then 
entered the circle, and we find, by tradition, that the fear of the savages present- 
ly disappeared under the conciliatory deportment of the explorer and his men ; 
and soon, by dint of presents and kind treatment, the best understanding was 
established, which was continued on the arrival of the vessel in the following 
season. 

"Hudson then began the exploration of the ' Great Eiver of the Mountains,' 
as it was called, hoping that by it there might be a passage through the Conti- 
nent to the Asiatic Seas. 

♦ JAMES W. GERARD, in Ms Paper on New York under the Dutch, published in 1874. 

14 



EAKLY SETTLEMENT OF MANHATTAN ISLAND. 15 

" Hudson penetrated to the highest point of navigation beyond Albany, and 
was a month in his exploration. He sent an account of his voyage to his Dutch 
employers at Amsterdam, stating, among other things, that ' it is as beautiful a 
land as the foot of man can tread upon.' 

" We can imagine the surprise and consternation of the savage tribes that 
lined the banks, as the little ' Half Moon,' gigantic to them, cautiously crept 
on its way up the * River of the Mountains,' its motley crew peering over the 
vessel's sides, to gaze upon the wonders and beauties of the strange land, and 
half mistrusting the savages that gazed back at them from the shore. 

" Hudson's account of the beauty and fertility of the region, and the rich 
peltry to be obtained there, aroused the attention of his Dutch employers, who 
immediately started expeditions with a view of settlement and trade. Voyages 
were undertaken, at private risk, in 1610 to 1612, to trade with the Indians, at 
and along the river ' Mauritius ' as it was called after Prince Maurice, and a few 
houses or huts erected. A trading-house was also established on Castle Island, 
on the west side of the river, a little below the present Albany, and called Fort 
Nassau, 

"In 1614, a charter or monopoly of trading was granted by the States-General 
to an Amsterdam association, and the territory was recognized for the first 
time under its new name of '' Nieuw-Nederland,'^^ which comprised the region, as 
set forth in the*jiharter, between New France and Virginia, the sea coast where- 
of extended from the 40th to the 45th of latitude. 

"In 1621, an exclusive charter, with almost sovereign powers, was given to the 
Dutch West India Company. This Company immediately began the business of 
colonization and the construction of buildings for the occupation of the colo- 
nists, and sent out cattle and farming materials, and implements. 

*' The colony was put under the government of a Director and Council, of 
whom the Governor or Director was directly commissioned by the States-Gene- 
ral. The Council was appointed by the Director with the approbation of the 
Company. 

" We read that Peter Minuit, one of the early Directors, in 1626, purchased the 
Island of Manhattan for the Company, from the Indians, for sixty guilders, or 
about twenty-four dollars. This amount seems not a very large one for the 
City of New York, but, on compounding the interest, it reaches at this time 
about the sum of two hundred millions of dollars. 

•* The City of New York at this time, that is to say at fourteen years of age, 
consisted of less than two score rudely fashioned log-houses, extending along 
the south-east shore, together with one or two buildings of greater importance 
belonging to the Company, including a simple block-house for defence against 
the red men. 

* Fort Orange, now Albany, and Manhattan, now New York, were first settled by the Dutch In 
1614, six years before the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Mass. 



16 NEW YORK AS IT WAS. 

"For upwards of forty years, from 1631 to 1664, the Dutch West India Com- 
pany governed New Netherland, having erected a block-house for defense against 
the warlike savages and afterward Fort Amsterdam. During the year 1641 an 
Indian war broke out, owing to the unwise and aggressive policy of Governor 
Kieft ; the inhabitants fled to the shelter of the Fort and established their huts 
as near as possible to the protective ramparts. 

*' Those were perilous times in the ' Manhadoes.' All the farms and exposed 
habitations about the Island were destroyed. The plantations about Westches- 
ter and Staten Island, and the blooming ' bouweries ' on the East River, and on 
the line of the present Chatham Street, and at Hoboken, Pavonia, Navisink, and 
Tappaen, were laid waste, and almost every settlement on the west side of the 
Highlands was destroyed, and many of the inhabitants slaughtered." 



" The great dramatic event connected with the history of the Town and Fort 
was its capitulation to the English in 1664, in a time of peace between England 
and the Netherlands. 

"Charles II., King of England, as is well known, had given a patent of a 
large territory to his brother, the Duke of York and Albany, comprehending 
Long Island and all the lands and rivers from the west side of the Connecticut 
River to the east side of Delaware Bay. 

" In September, 1664, accordingly, while the colony was under the direction 
of Governor Stuyvesant, Col. Nichols, the Deputy-Governor appointed to reduce 
and govern the province for the Duke, with scarcely note of warning, appeared 
in the bay with a fleet of four ships of nearly 100 guns, and a body of 500 regu- 
lars, besides seamen. 

•' The Dutch colony was quite unprepared to contend with such a force, the 
Fort being in a dilapidated condition, manned by only 350 soldiers, and com- 
manded by hills within pistol shot. The garrison accordingly capitulated, with 
the honors of war, on the^ 8th of September. Governor Stuyvesant protested 
against the act, wishing to fight to the last, and exclaimed to the citizens re- 
questing him to surrender, ' I had much rather be carried out dead ' 

" The Dutch soldiers marched out of the Old Fort, according to the terms of 
capitulation, with their arms fixed, drums beating and colors flying, and matches 
lighted, down Beaver Lane to the water side, and embarked for Holland. The 
English flag was hoisted over the Fort, which then became Fort James and 
' Nieuw Amsterdam,'' ' New York,' in honor of the Duke of York. 

" After its surrender to the English, the little town settled down with Dutch 
stolidity under its English rulers, whose government was kindly. For eight 
years it pursued an even course under a mayor and aldermen, instead of a 
Sellout, Burgemeesterin and Schepenen, until, on the war breaking out between 
the English and the Dutch in 1673, it was retaken by the latter. 



ENGLISH RULE — COLLEOK OR COLLECT POND. 17 

"New York thereupon was rechristened by tlie Dutch Governor Colve ' New 
Orange.^ The name of New Netherland was restored, and the old Fort was 
rechristened Fort ' Wilhelm Hendricky in honor of the Prince of Orange. 

" On the subsequent peace, however, between England and Holland, in 1674, 
the region of New Netherland was finally ceded to the English. Governor 
Andros took possession for the Duke, and rechristened * New Amsterdam ' as 
* New York,' and the fort again became ' Fort James.'' 

" The old fort, during English colonial times, was the scene of gubernatorial 
state and show, and here too were fired salutes for His Majesty's birthday, and 
for victory over Frenchmen and Spaniards. 

*'The Fort was also the scene of stirring events during the Revolutionary 
period, and changed its flag under the fortunes of war. At length, when peace 
had been established in the land (in 1783), the services of this venerable servant 
of Bellona were considered no longer necessary by the ' Mayor, Aldermen and 
Commonalty,' whose utilitarian spirit, in 1788, caused its final destruction and 
removal. And now no remnant of this ancient structure, that rose with the 
settlement of our island, and saw and shared its changing fortunes for upward 
of one hundred and fifty years." 



Colleck or Collect Pond. 

The following is an interesting description of a portion of Manhattan Island, 
as seen in early days. " Passing the corner of Chatham and Duane," (where now 
stands Sweeny's Hotel,) "we come to the park-water pond or lake, called 
Kalck-Tweck, in subsequent days corrupted into the Colleck or Collect. This pond 
I was very deep, one of the most romantic spots on the island, and a favorite 
resort for the angler and the pleasure seeker. 

" Where the ' Tombs ' now looks grimly down on noisome Centre street, 
there was presented in those days a charming sylvan scene. Little pleasure- 
housi .7ere placed upon the banks and shore, and fairy-like boats skimmed the 
pellucid waters. Here the angler pursued his gentle sport, and the lover of 
Nature came from his busy haunts below, and found repose and solace amid the 
peaceful scene. 

" On this pond, in 1796, John Fitch paddled, to the admiration of the gazing 
multitudes, his little experimental steamer, about 18 feet long.* North of the 
lake stretched the range of marsh land, which it was subsequently found neces- 
sary to drain through Canal street to the river. 

♦This event was faithfully depicted in an engraving which appeared several years afterwards. 

2 



18 NEW YOKK AS IT WAS. 

"From the Collect pond, a little sparkling fresh-water stream, called the 
'■OuldKill,' ran over Wolfert's meadow, which covered the present Koosevelt 
street, and emptied into the East River, at the foot of James street, which 
stream was covered by a bridge at the junction of Roosevelt and Chatham 
streets; in English times called the "Kissing Bridge,"— so called because a cer- 
tain salute was claimed there by enterprising travelers from their complaisant 
companions. Near this was the celebrated tea- water pump, whose water was 
subsequently carried about the city, within the memory of many old citizens." 




NEW YORK AT THE TIME OF THE CAPITULATION TO THE 
ENGLISH IN 1664. 

" To illustrate the early condition of the 
city," says Valentine, in his History of the 
City of New York, " it is proposed to adopt 
the period at which the rule of the Dutch ter- 
minated, after the City had been under their 
auspices between thirty and forty years, and 
had grown up to be a considerable town, of 
about fifteen hundred inhabitants. 

" The boundary of the City was principally defined by the stockades erected 
in 1653, on the present line of Wall street ; and also that along the west side of 
the road, on the shore of the East River, on the present line of Pearl street, 
several of the citizens had established their residences at a very early period. 
This road, between the city gate and the ferry, at the present site of Peck slip, 
was known as ' De Smit's Valey,' or 'the Smith's Valley.' The origin of this 
name is ascribed to the circumstance that Cornelius Clopper, a blacksmith, es- 
tablished himself at the present corner of Maiden lane and Pearl street. The 
' Smit's Valey ' was, for a long period, the common name of that part of the 
town lying between Wall street and the present Franklin square ; it was, in sub- 
sequent years, known as the ' Valey,' * Vly ' or ' Fly.' 

" We have thus far traced the road from Franklin square to Wall street, and 
have come to the * Waterpoort,' or Water Gate, being the entrance within the 
line of the city palisades, on the present line of Wall street. This gate was a 
heavy wooden structure, which was closed at bell ringing in the evening (nine 
o'clock), and opened at sunrise in the morning." 



CHARTER OF THE CITY OLD LANDMARKS. 19 

1683. — Charter of the City of New York and Division of the City into 

Six Wards.* 

At a meeting of the Mayor and Aldermen at the City Hall, December 8, 1683, 
" The Devision of ye Citty and Corporation of New York into Six Wards is 
agreed on to be as followeth, viz. : 



5. Ye West Ward. 

6. Ye Out Ward, to cjontain ye Towne 

of Harlem, &c." 



1. Ye South Ward. 

2. Ye Dock Ward. 

3. Ye East Ward. 

4. Ye North Ward. 
In the same year (1683), it was Resolved, " That ye said Citty have a Common 

Seale to serve for ye Sealing of all and singular their affairs, matters and business 

touching ye said Corporation." 

CoRNELis Steenwyck, Mayov. 

OLD LANDMARKS IN 1770. 

Starting from the Battery, or Bowling Green, " the Broad Way " was skirted 
l)y a double row of trees, which extended up the slope of the street nearly as 
far as Beaver lane {Morris street). Here resided many persons who were in those 
days prominent in the mercantile and social circles of New York. Broadway 
above Beaver Lane was generally occupied with private dwellings. 

At some distance to the right, from the Broadway, on the upper side of Gar- 
den street {Exchange place), between Broad and Smith {now William), streets, for- 
merly stood the ancient church edifice of the " Old " Dutch Church. That an- 
cieht meeting-house remained until 1807, when it was taken down to make room 
for a new edifice, which, in its turn, was destroyed, in " the great fire " of De- 
cember, 1835. 

On the corner of what is now known as Rector street, stood the old Lutheran 
Church, and, in its rear — towards the North River — was " the English School," 
which had been established and fostered by the Vestry of Trinity Church. 

" Trinity Church, in 1770," occupied the same site — surrounded by the memo- 
rials of the departed — as that on which she now stands. Within, this ancient edi- 
fice was ornamented beyond any other place of public worship in the city. 
This building was destroyed in the great fire of 1776 ; and the substantial struc- 
ture which was erected in its place in 1788, in its turn, has given way to the pre- 
vailing taste for change — the magnificient edifice (erected in 1840), which is now 
the parish church of Old Trinity, — representing as truly the spirit of the present 
age as the old building first referred to did that of the merchants and the people 
of New York in 1770. 

"Immediately in front of Trinity Church, in the olden time, as it still does, 
Wall street extended from the Broad Way to the East Ri^ er. In the earlier days 

* The City of New York was originally Incorporated in 1653, while occupied by the Dutch. 



20 NEW YORK AS IT WAS. 

of the colony (1653) 'a wall,' or stockade, had been erected along the northern 
line of this street, for the protection of the town from the hostile Indians— giv- 
ing a name to the thoroughfare at its base. Portions of this wall still remained 
in 1700. At an early period, on the lower corner part of Nassau street, where 
the Custom House (now Sub-Treasury Building) stands— stood the City Hall, 
which served also as the Municipal and Colonial Court House, the Debtors' and 
County Jail, and the Capitol of the Province. The old City Hall, finished in 
1700,— after having passed through many changes (the most important of which 
was that under the direction of Major L'Enfant, for the reception of the first 
Federal Congress, under the new Constitution of 1789,) was taken down in 1813, 
to make way for dwellings and stores, which also, in their turn, have given way 
to the fine buildings occupied by the United States Government, before referred 
to. {See Bngraving.) 

" Proceeding up the Broad Way, from Trinity Church, the promenader first 
passed King {now Pine) street on his right, and Stone {now Thames) street on his 
left — the former extending eastward from the Broad Way to the East River — 
the latter westward from the same central thoroughfare to the North River, 
which at that time then flowed on the present line of Greenwich street. 

" Little Queen {now Cedar) street was next passed on the right, and Little {also 
Oedar) street on the left — then extending from the North River on the west, as 
at this time, to Smith {now William) street on the east. Crown {now Liberty) 
street extended on either hand to the North River on the west and to Maiden 
Lane on the east — its present limits. 

" Maiden Lane and Courtlandt street, both well known to the citizens of the 
present day, were next passed, the former extending to the East River, the latter 
to the North River. At the foot of the former, in the wide space that still re- 
mains there, was ' the Fly Market,' while the stairs on the river, near by, were 
one of the termini of the Long Island ferry ; at the foot of the latter was the 
ferry to Powle's Hook {Jersey Gity)^ which still retains the same position." 

A late writer says : " Outside of city palisades, beyond Wall street, Broadway 
was called by the Dutch ' Heere-Wegh.^ North of Wall street was the 'Maagde- 
Padtje' or the Maiden Path, which nomenclature was changed to Maiden Lane 
about 1700, This lane was, under our Dutch ancestors, a rural shady walk, with a 
rivulet running through it, and sloping hills on either side. Qouwenhevg Hill, on 
pai't of the present Pearl, Cliff and John streets, was a favorite place of resort 
for the citizens on sultry summer afternoons." 

" Dey street, on the west side of Broadway, and John street, opposite to Dey 
street, are still known ; and in 1770, and for nearly tliree-quarters of a century 
afterward, they afforded pleasant places of residence for those who thronged 
the ' business streets ' of that portion of the city. 



OLD LANDMARKS. 21 

"Proceeding up the Broad Way, from Dey street, the promenader in 1770 
next crossed Partition {now Fulton) street, extending westward to the North 
River ; or Fair {also Fulton) street, which extended eastward only to the present 
Cliff street. 

" On the lower corner of Fair and Dutch streets stood the small frame meet- 
ing-house of the Moravian Church, which had been erected in 1751 ; and in the 
northeastern corner of Fair and William streets stood the more imposing stone 
edifice of the North Dutch Church, which still retains its original appearance, 
and is still used by the same body, as in 1770, and for the same objects.* 

'* On the upper corner of Partition {now Fulton) street and the Broad Way 
stood St. Paul's Chapel, which had been dedicated in October, 1766 ; and it still 
stands there, surrounded by its crowded graveyard, one of the most interesting 
of the few landmarks which have been preserved in our city. 

" Opposite to St. Paul's Chapel, the road to Boston — one of the great outlets 
from the City — branched ofi from the Broad Way ; and the present Park Row, 
and Chatham Street, and the Bowery, indicate the general course which it took; 
through the suburbs of the city. 

"Vesey and Barclay streets, named after two rectors of Trinity Church, 
Robinson {noio Park Place), Murray, Warren, Church, and Chapel Streets, {now 
West Broadway), on the western side of the Broad Way, with the edifice of the 
King's {now Columbia) College, at the foot of Robinson street, are too well 
known to the citizens of New York of the present day to need any particular 
notice in this place. In 1770, these streets were generally occupied for resi- 
dences. 

"On the eastern side of the Broad Way, opposite the streets referred to, was 
the Common — an open ground, which is still well known as ' The Park. ' Even 
at the above early day the people had been accustomed to assemble at that place 
to express their opinions. They had rendezvoused there on the evening of the 
31st of October, 1765, and on the following evening preparatory to the cele- 
brated 'Stamp Act Riots;' and at the same place, on the following Tuesday, 
they had re-assembled armed, with the avowed intention to storm the Fort in 
order to obtain possession of the stamped papers which had been deposited 
within it. 

"On its western margin, nearly opposite Murray Street, the celebrated Liberty 
pole was erected in June, 1766 ; and around its base (or those of the poles which 
from time to time had been erected in the place of those which the soldiers had 
destroyed) cluster many of the most romantic associations of that interesting era. 
On the 19th of March, 1767, the fourth pole had been erected on that spot 
in honor of ' The King, Pitt and Liberty,' and the colors had floated gaily from 
its summit on the birthday of the sovereign. 

* In 1875 this old edifice was sold and the land occupied by stores. 



22 NETV ZOKK AS IT WAS. 

" Within tlie area of this Common, our present Park, on the very spot on 
which now stands the City Hall, stood, in 1770, the Poor-house, in the rear of 
which was a garden; while on the space between that and the Broad Way trees 
were planted. Eastward from the Poor-house stood the Debtors' Prison, a rec- 
tangular stone building, surmounted by a cupola — a building which, during the 
subsequent war of the Revolution, was occupied by Cunningham, the Provost 
Marshal, whose cruelties to the * rebel ' prisoners who were placed under his 
charge are well known. That building, with modern improvements both in- 
terior and exterior, still retains its place in the Park, and is known to all our 
citizens as ' The Hall of Records.' North from the Poor-house, near the site of 
the row of buildings known as ' the New City Hall,' more recently occupied, at 
that time stood the long line of barracks which furnished quarters for the troops 
whose turbulent spirit produced so much confusion in the city, and whose de- 
termination to cut down ' the Liberty-pole ' proved so powerful an element in 
the movements of that period." 

THE CITY OP NEW YORK, IN 1776. 

Mr. Hugh Gain, in his " Universal Register for the year 1787," says : " New 
York is about a mile and a half in length, and half a mile broad, containing, 
before the fire on the 21st of September, 1776, and 3d of August, 1778, about 
4,200 houses, and 30,000 inhabitants. 

"The great fire of 1776, during the occupancy of the City by the British, 
commenced in a small wooden house on the wharf near Whitehall slip. The 
number of houses that were burned and destroyed in that awful conflagration 
were thus, viz:— From Mortkile street (now Barclay) to Courtlandt street, 167; 
from Courtlandt street to Beaver street, 175 ; from Beaver street to the East 
River, 151 ; total, 493 (including old Trinity Church). There being very few 
inhabitants in the City at the time, and many of those were afraid to venture at 
night in the streets, for fear of being taken up as suspicious persons, several of 
the citizens were sent to the provost guard for examination, and some of them 
remained there two and three days, until they could give satisfactory evidence 
of their loyalty. 

"Early in September, 1776, the American Army under General Washington, 
evacuated the City and retired to Harlem Heights; General Greene strenuously 
advised the destruction of the City. The spade had been liberally used. Fort 
George— the battery below and to the south of it ; the wharves and streets had 
redoubts and breastworks ; Bayard's mount was crowned by a fort, and called 
Bunker's Hill; Corlear's Hook was surrounded by batteries, and fortified lines 
crossed the island at various distances. But Washington saw that the enemy 
could surround the town— their troops had possession of the islands— and their 



OLD AND NEW NAMES OF STREETS FIRST DIRECTORY. 23 

ships his batteries unharmed, on either side of the city. " Fort Washington, 
which was soon afterwards captured, stood on an eminence situated on the margin 
of the Hudson or North River, about two miles and a half below King's Bridge, 
crossing Harlem River. 

" The newspapers published in the Province of New York in 1775, were, The 
New York Mercury^ The Neic York Journal^ The New York Gazeteer (these in the 
city), and The Albany Post, in Albany." 

OLD AND NEW NAMES OF STREETS, 

so FAR AS ASCERTAINED ; COPIED FROM THE FIRST CITY DIRECTORY, 1786. 

Formerly Called. Now Called. 

Chatham Row Park Row. 

Crown Street Liberty Street. 

Dock Street Pearl Street, between Broad street and Hanover Square. 

Duke Street South William Street. 

Fair Street. .Fulton Street, between Broadway and Clifi Street. 

Garden Street. Exchange Place. 

George Street Spruce Street. 

Golden Hill. .John Street, between William and Pearl Street. 

King George Street.. William Street, Frankfort and Pearl Street. 

King Street Pine Street. 

Little Dock Street South Street, between Whitehall and Old Slip. 

Little Queen Street. -Cedar Street. 

Magazine Street Part of Pearl Street. 

Mill Street Part of South William Street. 

Mortkile Street Barclay Street. 

Partition Street Fulton Street, between Broadway and North River. 

Princess Street Beaver Street, between Bond and William Street. 

Queen Street Pearl Street, between Wall Street and Broadway. 

Robinson Street Park Place. 

St. James Street James Street. 

Smith Street .William Street, between Old Slip and Liberty Street. 

Stone Street Thames Street. 

The New York Directory for 1786, is thus announced by the Compiler. 

To the Inhabitants of the City of New York : 

Gentlemen : — Mr. Franks returns his sincere thanks to his friends and the 
public for their kind and liberal encouragement towards the New York Directory 
(eighty-two pages, 18mo). He humbly requests they may indulgently excuse 
any errors, inaccuracies, or omissions which may appear, and impute them only 



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24 NEW YORK AS IT WAS. 

to the local disadvantages lie labored under in this first attempt ; as he intends 
in the future editions he shall have the honor of annually presenting them, to 
have it more in his power to be exact, correct and circumstantial; he makes 
bold to call on the citizens at large for every information that they think will 
prove conducive to its future coiTCCtness. Their directions will be thankfully 
received and gratefully acknowledged by Mr. Frails, at his lodgings, No. 66 
Broadway, or at Mr. Kollock's printing oflSce, corner of Wall and Water 
streets. 

Bank of New York. • 

(Organized 1784.) 
List of Officers and Directors of the Bank of New York, 1786 ; copied from 
the dbow Directory : 

Isaac Roosevelt, Esq., President. 
William Maxwell, Esq. , Vice-President. 
William Seton, Cashier. 
Directors: — Samuel Franklin, Nicholas Low, Daniel McCormick, Robert 
Bowne, Thomas Stoughton, Joshua Waddington, Comfort Sands, Thomas Ran- 
dall, Alexander Hamilton, John Vanberbilt, James Buchanan. 

Note. — The rate of discount is at present fixed at six per cent, per annum; 
but no discount will be made for longer than forty-five days; nor will any note 
or bill be discounted to pay a former one ; payment must be made in bank-notes 
or specie. 

Growth of the City of New York. 
In 1790, when the first OflScial Census was taken, and the City contained 33,131 
inhabitants, the' northern limits of improvements on the West side was Reade 
street, and on the East side, parallel with the Bowery, was Grand street. Then 
a large fresh-water pond covered a portion of Centre street leading towa;rd 
Canal street. 

In 1830 the City had extended to Canal street, on the West side, and to Eighth 
street on the East side, extending a part way towards the East River. After 
1830 the rapid growth of the City commenced, and now (1875) dense rows of 
houses extend to Central Park on the West, and to Harlem River on the East 
side of the city. 

THE NEW YORK AND BROOKLYN DIRECTORY AND REGISTER, , 

For the Year 1796. 

Compiled by John Low. Printed by John Buel and John Bull. 

This volume contains much information relating to the State of New York, 
and the City of New York; together with a Brooklyn Directory^ comprised in 
three pages, 12mo. 






REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH. 25 

New Yokk State Officers, 1796. 
John Jay, Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Militia, and 
Admiral of the Navy. 
Elbert Jones, private Secretary. 

Stephen Van Rensselaer, Lieut. Oav., and President of the Senate. 
Lewis A. Scott, Secretary of State. 
JosiAH Ogden HoFFM.iN, Attorney- General. 
Gerard Bancker, Treasurer. 
Peter T. Curtenas, Auditor. 
Simeon DeWitt, Surveyor- General. 



Charter Officers of the City of New York. 
Richard Varick, Mayor. 
Samuel Jones, Recorder. 
Jacob I. Lansing, Sheriff. 
Robert Benson, Clerk. 
Daniel Phoenix, Treasurer and Ghamherlain. 
William I. Elsworth, Coroner. 

Aldermen. 
Gabriel Furman, Theophilus Beekman, 

Robert Lenox, John Campbell, 

Andrew Van Tuyl, Nicholas Bayard, 
Cornelius C. Roosevelt. 

James Culbertson, RigJi Constable. 
Reformed Dutch Church. 
The first church erected on Manhattan Island was in 1628, on the arrival of 
the first minister, Michaelius. Soon after arrived Everardus Bogardus, the 
"Dominie," in 1633. 

The second church was erected in 1642, within the walls of Fort Amsterdam, 
which stood on what is now called the Battery. This church was 72 feet long, 
50 wide and 16 feet high ; cost 2,500 guilders. The congregation worshiped 
in it until the opening of the old South Dutch Church in Garden Street. After 
the surrender of the colony to the English in 1664, it was occasionally occupied 
by the English military chaplains. This church was rebuilt in 1807, and de- 
stroyed by the great fire in December, 1835. 

The old church in the Fort, after the possession of the British, became the 
property of the government and took the name of King's Chapel, and continued 
to be used for worship by the chaplains of the garrison until 1741, when it was 
destroyed by fire. 



26 NEW YORK AS IT WAS. 

The third church, erected in 1764, was the Middle Dutch Church in Nassau 
Street, recently used as a City P6st Office. The fourth church erected was the 
North Dutch Church in Fulton Street, corner William Street, now being de- 
molished and the site converted into store-houses. Thus all those old land- 
marks are fast disappearing, to be remembered only as matters of history. 

NEW YORK AFTER THE PEACE OF 1783. 

The British army evacuated New York November 25th, 1783, and the Ameri- 
can troops under General Knox took possession of the city. Soon after General 
Washington and Gov. George Clinton, with their suite, made their public entry 
into the city on horseback, followed by the Lieut. -Governor and the membera 
of council, for the temporary government of the Southern district, four abreast ; 
Gen. Knox and the officers of the army, eight abreast ; the Speaker of the As- 
sembly and citizens on foot, eight abreast. The Governor gave a public dinner, 
at which the commander-in-chief and other general officers were present. The 
arrangements of the whole business were so well made and executed that the 
most admirable tranquility succeeded through the day and night. On Monday 
following the Governor gave an elegant entertainment to the French ambassa- 
dor, the Chevalier de la Luzerne, General Washington, the principal officers of 
New York State and of the army, and upwards of a hundred gentlemen were 
present. Magnificent fireworks, infinitely exceeding everything of the kind be- 
fore seen in the United States, were exhibited at the Bowling Green in Broadway 
on the evening of Tuesday, in celebration of the definitive Treaty of Peace. 

In 1783 the compact part of the city extended to Chambers street on the north 
and to Catherine street on the east. Fort George stood on the north end of the 
Battery, and barracks for soldiers on the South end. The upper barracks were 
in the Park, on Chambers street. The prison, new prison, and house of correc- 
tion were in the Park, the latter where now stands the City Hall. The fresh- 
water pond on Centre street was in part surrounded by hills. The hospital 
building stood near Broadway and Duane street. A line of fortifications ex- 
tended from the high grounds on the east part of the city to Bunker Hill, near 
Grand street, between the Bowery and Broadway, and westward across Broad- 
way to another eminence ; fortifications were also erected further west of Broad- 
way, near the river, on a line with Fourteenth street. All beyond was cleared 
fields. 



LANDMARKS OF THE DAYS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

The Waskington House, No. 1 Broadway, opposite Bowling Green, is one of 
the best preserved buildings of Revolutionary days. It is now used as a public 
house, with a restaurant attached. Here, for a time, during the Revolutionary 



Washington's head-quartees — sugak-house pkison. 2T 

War, it was occupied by British officers, and afterwards by General Washington 
and his staff. It was built about the middle of the 18th century, and for many 
years occupied by families of distinction. 

Washington's Head-Quarters. 

This venerable building stands on the southeast corner of Broad and Pearl 
Streets, formerly known as No. 3 Dock Street. It is in tolerably good preser- 
vation, and is now kept by William Stiibner as a boarding-house, with a bar 
attached. 

The particulars of an interesting event is copied from an old engraving 
which still adorns its walls, with words as follows : 

Washington taking Leave op the Officers of His Army, 
At Francis's Tavern (Dock Street), New York, Dec. 4th, 1783. Present, Gen- 
erals Knox and Steuben, Gov. George Clinton, Alexander Hamilton and others. 
"With a heart of love and gratitude I now take leave of you; I most de- 
voutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your for- 
mer ones have been glorious and honorable." — Extract from Washington's Ad- 
dress. 

The Old Sugar-House in Liberty Street. 
This relic of the days of the Revolution stands as a monument to the victims 
of the Sugan'-House Prison, and the Old Dutch Churc\ in Nassau street, recently 
used as a Post Office, was once used as a dungeon for the soldiers of the 
American Army. 

" It was known as the Middle Dutch Church, and was built by the Knicker- 
bockers. Its pews were torn out and used as fuel, a floor was laid from one 
gallery to the other, thus dividing the building into two stories, and here three 
thousand prisoners we-re incarcerated. Poor men, here they were allowed 
neither fuel nor bedding, and their food was wretched and scanty. The weather 
was cold, and many died from cold and starvation. It is said even that 
their inhuman keepers poisoned many of them, in order to be rid of them and 
to possess themselves of their silver shoe and knee-buckles and watches. This 
prison-house was bad enough, but worse still was Rhinelander's Sugar-House, 
that stood in Liberty Street. It was a gray stone building five stories in height, 
very low between the ceilings, with very thick walls and small deep windows. 
This was, perhaps, the gloomiest of the improvised dungeons in the city. Each 
story was divided into two compartments. The low ceilings and small windows 
made the ventilation very poor above-stairs, and the cellar, which was likewise 
used as a dungeon, was more miserable yet. The building was surrounded by a 
board fence nine feet high. Two British or Hessian soldiers paced on constant 
watch about it night and day. In this wretched place thousands of our soldiers 
were incarcerated. They were huddled in so close that they coUld scarcely lie 
down. They were left for months without fire or blankets, or change of cloth- 
ing. Their food was sea-biscuit, mouldy and full of worms, and raw pork." 



28 NEW YORK AS IT WAS. 

St. Paul's Church or Ohapel, 

Standing on Broadway, between Fulton and Vesey streets, is another vener- 
able edifice, which escaped the Great Fire of 1776. It was built in 1766, and is 
surrounded by an ancient burying-ground. 

The remains of Gen. Kichard Montgomery, of Revolutionary fame, who 
was killed in the attack on Quebec, December 31, 1775, lie interred in St. Paul's 
Churchyard. He was a native of Ireland, born Dec. 2, 1736, being 39 years 
old at the time of his premature death. In 1818 the State of New York caused 
his remains to be removed from Quebec, where first interred, and placed be- 
neath the monument erected to his memory in the City of New York. 

Here also lie the remains of Thomas Addis Emmet, born at Cork, Ireland, 
24th April, 1764; died in New York, 14th Nov., 1827, aged 64 years. His tomb 
and monument are situated in the southeast part of the inclosure, at the corner 
of Broadway and Fulton Street. 

The Walton House. 

This ancient house is still standing — although in a dilapidated state — in 
Franklin Square, and is known as No. 326 Pearl street (formerly called Queen 
street). This building was erected in 1752 by Mr. William Walton, the des- 
cendent of a long line of ancestors, who were celebrated as *' Merchant Princes." 
At the time of the Revolution, and for many years afterwards, it was the re- 
sort of the aristocratic citizens of New York. It is now a most interesting relic 
of olden times. An inscription, {The Old Walton House,) coarsely painted in 
dingy white on its faded red walls, arrests the eye of the passing stranger. 
The First Official Journal Published in the United States. 

The'paper was called The Gazette of the United States, and the first number 
was published in the then village of New York, when Congress assembled here 
in April 1789. It contains the proceedings of the first Congress, and gives an 
account of General Washington's reception, saying that " he was wafted across 
the bay from New Jersey in a flat barge by thirteen pilots dressed in white 
uniforms." There is also an account of the counting of the first electoral vote, 
of which Washington received only C9 out of a total of 138 votes, and a report 
of the inauguration exercises, which were postponed one day, because "it was 
an unfavorable season of the year for journeying." The whole volume contains 
404 pages, with very few advertisements. The prospectus contains an an- 
nouncement that "by an arrangement made with the stages, subscribers at a 
distance will be furnished with The Gazette.'' A complete set of The Gazette of 
the United States is in the State Historical Society's Library at Albany. 

WALL STREET. 

The whole record, either ancient or modern, of this famous mart of money 
and power would take volumes to describe. *' Mr. Gerard alone can do justice 
to its story in the old Dutch past, when it was * De Cuigel ' of te Stadt Waalj or 



WALL STREET REMINISCENCES OF OLD NEW YORK. 29 

the walk at the city wall. But still, for the curiosity of the thing, we insert a list 
of the inhabitants of De Cuigel in 1665, names which the most diligent censug 
taker will probably not be able to find in or out of * the Street ' now-a-days. 
Here they are as somewhere given : Jan Jansen Van Langendyck, Jan Tennitzen 
Molensaan, John Videl, Abraham Kermer, Gridtje Schoonteenmergers, Jacob 
Jansen, Dirck de Wolspinder, Barent Ergbertzen, Dirck Van Clyff, Pieter Jan- 
sen. The latter name, however, has lived through the generations, and within 
memory of those of the present time." 

The principal event which settled the character of Wall Street as the center 
of interest in the city, and which brought about it the leading men of business 
and professional life, was the erection of the old City Hall, opposite Broad 
Street, in 1700, which building became afterward the Capitol of the United 
States, and the site of which is still used for public purposes, thus perpetuating 
the influence of the original selection of that site down to the present day. The 
City Hall remained in use for the objects for which it was erected about a cen- 
tury. After the Revolutionary War this building received additional historic in- 
terest as the first place of meeting of the Congress of 1789, and the inauguration 
of George Washington as President 

The financial, or modern history of Wall Street, commenced soon after the 
Peace of 1783. The Bank of New York was the first banking institution estab- 
lished in this City, commencing operations in 1784, although not chartered until 
1791, the banking-house being located on the corner of Wall and William streets. 
It was followed by the Manhattan Company, incorporated in 1799, located at 
No. 23 Wall street ; by the Merchants' Bank, incorporated in 1805, located at 
25 Wall Street ; by the United States Bank, located at 38 Wall Street, about 
1805 ; by the Mechanics' Bank, incorporated in 1810, located at 16 Wall Street. 
These were the pioneer banking institutions, which were soon after rapidly in- 
creased in number. 

Insurance companies were in existence in this city still earlier than banks. 
" We believe," says Valentine, " the first institution of the kind after the Revo- 
lutionary War was called the Mutual Assurance Company. We find that in 
1815 there were already thirteen insurance companies established in Wall Street." 

REMINISCENCES OF NEW YORK IN 1790. 

By the Oldest Lawyer Living. 

Hon. Elbert Herring, now in his ninety-eighth year, is still living in the city 
of New York. He was born on the 8th of July, 1777, at Stratford, Conn., 
and removed to New York when seven years of age. He says, on being inter- 
viewed: "I can remember New York when it scarcely extended above Ann 
street. It was a very difierent place then." The embryo Metropolis of 1790 



30 NEW YOEK AS IT WAS. 

he described as follows : " Above Ann street it was all country, only here and 
there a house. The wealthy inhabitants lived mostly below Wall street ; 
others in Garden street and Rector street. The old Bridewell and Jail stood 
where now the City Hall Park is. James Duane is the oldest Mayor I can re- 
member." The population at that time was 33,131. " The only theatre was in 
'John street. The richest man at that time was Mr. Desbrosses. He had that 
reputation." Mr. Herring was educated at Princeton College ; admitted to the 
bar in December, 1799 ; and elected a Judge of the Marine Court in 1805. " Jja. 
early times," he remarked, " there was more morality, no doubt. At that time 
we had scarcely any foreigners ; we were all Yankees or Knickerbockers here 
in New York, and we were a very honest people. There was very little cheat- 
ing. Everybody who could afford it used to dress in broadcloth, very few in 
homespun garments." He remembered distinctly the first steamboat that ever 
went to Albany in 1807. This remarkable living man attributed his old age to 
his moderation in all things, to his careful avoidance of excess in anything, and 
finally to the "Divine blessing." 

In 1830, forty years after the above statement refers to, the built portion of 
the city extended to Canal street on the West side, and to about Fourth street on 
the East side, parallel to the Bowery, near where stood Vauxhall Garden. Fourth 
avenue was then being opened and a hill leveled which stood on the east side 
of Union Square. 

About this period a series of street views was published by George M. 
Bourne, drawn and engraved by James Smillie and others, showing the then 
appearance of streets and public buildings. 

DESCRIPTION OF NEW YORK IN 1800. 

Copied from a series of historical articles relating to the City, being published 
in the New Yark Express in 1841 : 

" The fashionable part of the city," or West end of the town, '* was in Wall and 
Pine streets, between Broadway and Pearl, — Pearl from Hanover square, (now 
part of Old slip) to John street, along State street and a part of Broadway, 
below Wall. Then the City Hall was not built, and on the site where it now 
stands was the rear of the Almshouse — the " hog-pen " of which inclosed the 
ground now the most beautiful part of the Park. The change is truly astonish- 
ing. In Wall street, for example, there now is but one family residing in the 
whole street, and that is over a bank. Hardly an old building remains, and not 
one that is not so altered as to be totally different from what it was then. At 
the corner of Nassau street, stood the venerable Federal Hall, since torn down — 
a splendid row of dwellings was afterwards put up, which were subsequently 
torn down to give place to the new Custom House, now building.* Next below 
stood the elegant mansion of Mr. Verplanck, the brick of which were brought 
from Holland, and in its stead is the Bank of the State of New York. Next 

* United States Sub-Treasury Building. 



NEW YOKK IN 1800 — BROADWAY. 31 

-w^as the residence of John Keese, now the Union Bank, less changed than any 
other building. This, however, on the first of May, is to be leveled with the 
ground and a new banking house to be put up. Between it and William street 
were the residences of Francis B. Winthrop and Charles Wilkes — in the place 
of which are the Dry Dock Bank and Bank of America. On the lot where the 
United States Bank now stands was the elegant mansion of Gen. John Lamb, 
first Collector of the Port and father of Alderman Lamb. This was considered 
not only the finest house, but was believed to be the grandest house that could 
be built. On the opposite side, where is now going up the massive new Mer- 
chants' Exchange, stood the residences of Thomas Buchanan, Mrs. White, and 
William C. Leffingwell. Mr, Jauncey, an English gentleman who lived in great 
style, occupied the building now rented by Messrs. Dykers & Alstyne — his stable 
is the same now used by the Board of Brokers. The very room in which mil- 
lions of stock are sold every week was then a hay-loft. 

*' The watch-house was kept at the corner of Broad street, now used by Rob- 
inson for the sale of his caricatures. Baker's tavern, one of the most noted 
public houses, was at the corner of New street — a club met there nightly for 
more than half a century. Pine street has undergone still greater changes ; 
from Water street to Broadway, every house has been demolished. Then not a 
store was to be seen. The old French church, the sanctuary of the Huguenots, 
stood at the corner of Nassau ; its surrounding burying-yard contained the ashes 
of many of the most valued citizens. The Walcotts, Jays, Waddingtons, 
Radcliffs, Brinkerhoffs, Wells, and a host of others, resided in this street, with- 
out a thought that in less than forty, and even thirty years, not one brick then 
standing would remain on another. In Pearl street were the fashionable resi- 
dences of Samuel Denton, John Ellis, John J. Glover, John Mowett, Robert 
Lenox, Thomas Cudle, John Glendenning, John B. Murray, Governor Broome, 
Andrew Ogden, Governor George. Clinton, Richard Varick, and a great number 
of others. Nearly all of these gentlemen are deceased. In Hanover square 
stood a block of buildings fronting Old slip and Pearl street. They have been 
all removed. The city in 1800 consisted of seven wards, now (1841) increased to 
seventeen." Population, 60,489. 

BROADWAY. 

This celebrated and fashionable thoroughfare has for upwards of two hundred 
years been the just pride of the City of New York. The ancient " Broad Way," 
as known to the early Dutch and English settlers, extending from the Bowling 
Green to the " Common," where now stands the City Hall. It was then, and for 
upwards of one hundred and fifty years, occupied as private dwellings, by the 
richest and most aristocratic residents. About one hundred years ago the street 
was opened through what was then known as the King's Farm, and the exten- 
sion beyond Chambers street was called Gi^eat George street^ extending north to 
Broome street, then fields again intervened. The two early thoroughfares to the 
north part of the island was the road to Greenwich and the " Bowery Lane," or 
High Road to Boston. It was not until about 1835, forty years since, that the 
lower part of Broadway, below Wall street, was converted into stores. Then 
the business portion of the street extended to Canal street, above there were scat- 



32 NEW YORK AS IT WAS. 

tering private residences to about Eighth street, with country residences be- 
yond. 

For thirty years past Broadway has been rapidly extending northward, and 
lined with palatial public edifices, and magnificent places of business, while 
from time to time the old dwellings of former years have been demolished, as 
proceeded the march of improvement. 

Broadway of to-day extends for a distance of about five miles from the Bat- 
tery on the south, to Central Park on the north. The prominent edifices are 
Trinity Church; the Equitable Life Insurance Building ; the New York Mutual 
Life Insurance Co.'s Building ; the Western Union Telegraph Company's Build- 
ing; the Evening Post building; the Park Bank Building; the Herald Building; 
St. Paul's Church, an old edifice; Astor House, New Post Office Building; 
standing on the south end of the City Hall Park ; the City Hall, and Court House 
Buildings, facing on Chambers street; Alex. T.Stewart's wholesale dry goods 
store ; the New York Life Insurance Building ; St. Nicholas Hotel; Metropoli- 
tan Hotel; Grand Central Hotel; New York Hotel; Alex. T. Stewart's 
retail store; Grace Church; the Methodist Publishing and Missionary Building; 
and the Domestic Sewing Machine Company's Building, facing Union Square. 
Above Fourteenth street the grandeur of the street is maintained, being lined 
with modern built edifices, among which are conspicuous : Tiffany & Com- 
pany's Building ; Arnold, Constable & Co's Building; Lord & Taylor's Building; 
Fifth Avenue Hotel, facing Madison Square ; Grand Hotel and many other 
fine edifices. 

The lower part of Broadway from Wall street to Union Square presents the 
moat stirring part of the city, being during the day filled with pedestrians, om- 
nibusses, and vehicles of almost every description. Around and above Union 
Square is where the gay and fashionable congregate and promenade during 
pleasant weather. 

" Here you may see the gayest of the gay, 
Their costly costumes with pride display." 
Banks of the State of New York, &c., 1805. 
[Copied from LongwortK' s Directory. ] 

Bank of the United States, Philadelphia, Thomas Willing, President ; 
George Simpson, Cashier. 

New York Branch, Cornelius Ray, President ; Jonathan Burrall, Cashier. 

Bank op New York, Matthew Clarkson, Treasurer; Charles Wilkes, Cashier. 

Manhattan Company, Daniel Ludlow, President ; Henry Remsen, Cashier. 

Merchants' Bank, Joshua Sands, President ; Lynde Catlin, Cashier. 

New York State Bank, Albany, John Taylor, President. 

Farmers' Bank op Lansingburgh, John D. Dickinson, President ; Hugh 
Peebles, Cashier. 



TRINITY CHUKCH. 33 

TRINITY CHURCH. 

[Copied from the New York Evening Post.] 

" There is one feature in the history of Trinity Church which is different from 
that of any other church in this city. It has been thrice built on the same spot, 
while other places of worship have been removed with the changes of popula- 
tion. St. Paurs is the only old church which retains its original site, while 
the old Dutch structures have disappeared one by one, the last being used as a 
Post Office and the other as a Mission, the society having moved up town. 

" The first Trinity was built in 1696, under the direction of Governor Fletcher, 
in order to afford means of worship to the English families. The latter had 
been arriving in large number since the close of the Dutch domination, and it 
was necessary to furnish them a religious home. The plot was granted by the 
Crown, on condition that burials should be afforded at one shilling and sixpence 
for each grave, and it became at once the graveyard of the English colonists. 
The first church fronted the west, and its tower overlooked the expanse of the 
Hudson, whose beach was what is now Greenwich street. The building resembled 
the Gothic order, and its appearance is preserved in an old drawing which 
showed that it had some pretensions to merit of style. It stood eighty years, all 
of which were times of much trouble. First, Indian warfare, then difficulties 
with adjacent colonies, the negro plot, the French and Indian war, and lastly, 
the revolution, during which it was destroyed. It was the church of the 
Governor and royal dignitaries, and it is possible that Washington, when a 
guest of Beverly Robinson, in 1756, may have been one of its congregation. 
Twenty years later it witnessed the mustering of the Continental army, with 
Washington at the head, and also the return of the routed forces from the bloody 
field of Long Island. Then followed the hurried retreat of the American 
troops, which had scarcely been accomplished when the great fire in 1776 broke 
out. It was the largest fire which America had ever witnessed up to that time, 
and its course of destruction included the old church. During the war religion 
was little thought of, and as St. Paul's was open, all who desired could attend 
service there. When Washington returned in triumph he saw the ruins of the 
church, and they still encumbered the ground at the time of his inauguration. 
With returning prosperity the rebuilding of the church was discussed by such 
men as Jay, Duane, etc., and in 1788 a new Trinity was built and re-dedicated. 
This building is remembered by many of our old citizens. One of the most 
important of the incidents connected with its history is the funeral of General 
Hamilton, when Gouverneur Morris delivered the eulogy from a stage erected 
before the porch. 

" The second Trinity was not so well built as its predecessor, for before it had 
stood half so long it was pronounced unsafe, and was demolished to prevent its 
fall. For five years the work of reconstruction was carried on, under the 
care of the distinguished architect, Richard Upjohn, who saw it completed in 
1845. Mr. Upjohn has lived to superintend the construction of the new Trinity 
school-house, in the rear of the church, which is just finished. Trinity Church 
has for thirty years enjoyed pre-eminence in the ecclesiastical structures of the 
city, but the Roman Catholic Cathedral, when finished, will take precedence. 
Its spire is the chief landmark in a distant view of the city, and its cemetery is 
the spot of greatest historical interest in this neighborhood. Although burials 
there are forbidden by law, yet this prohibition does not reach the owners of 
vaults, and at least a half-dozen burials take place in this manner every year. 



34 NEW YOEK AS IT WAS. 

Speaking of the burial-places suggests that the body of Daniel D. Tompkins 
rests beneath the shadow of St. Mark's Church, and that President Monroe was 
also buried in the same place. The body of the latter was claimed by the State 
of Virginia, in 1858, and was transported to Richmond under care of a guard of 
honor. This leaves Trinity Cemetery unequaled in this city as the resting- 
place of the illustrious dead.* 

" The uncertainties of the future are illustrated in a monument bearing the 
following inscription : 

" In memory of Scriba— 1796. 

" This name has long since disappeared from our city population, but Colonel 
Scriba was militia commander of some note, and had his regiment out at the 
reception of Washington when the latter came as the President elect. It is 
probable that the intention was to have the full name inserted after death, but 
this was neglected, and thus the monument is left perpetually defective. There 
are some very quaint epitaphs in Trinity burial-ground. How different, for in- 
stance, is the following stanza, dated 1747, from the Greenwood style : 

'"They Fled from sciens of Mortal guilt 
Without Par Taking of the same 
They left their bodies Sleeping here 
Till Christ do come the Second time.' 

" Another reads thus : ' Here Lyes Interred ye Body of Benjamin Thomas, 
Who Departed this lief Augt ye 1st 1744 as you ayer no So once Was I In helth 
and Strength thoe here I lye & as I am now so you must be Prepare for Death 
& follow me.' 

"Among other noticeable monuments is that one which commemorates 
William Bradford, the first printer that came to this city. This, however, is a 
copy, the original being in the rooms of the Historical Society. The epitaph is 
as follows : ' Here lies the Body of Mr. William Bradford, printer, who departed 
this life May 23, 1752. He was born in Leicestershire, in Old England, in 1660, 
and came over to America in 1680, before Philadelphia was laid out. He was 
printer to the government for upwards of fifty years, and being quite worn out 
with old age and labor, he left this mortal state in the lively hope of a blessed 
immortality. 

" ' Reader reflect how soon you'll quit this stage ; 
You'U.find but few attain to such an age ; 
Life's full of pain. Lo ! here's a Place of Rest, 
Prepare lo meet your God, then you are blest.' 

" When Benjamin Franklin came to this city in search of employment he ap- 
plied to Bradford for work, but was refused. There was at that time no chance 
for an additional printer, and Franklin therefore went to Philadelphia, making 
the journey on foot. Among other historical memorials is the vault of Colonel 
Marinus Willett, who distinguished himself during the Revolution. Also that 
of another Revolutionary character, which bears the following inscription : 
' Vault built in 1738. James Alexander, and his descendants by his son, 
William Earl of Sterling, and his daughter.' 

* The tomb of Peter Stuyvesant, marked by a brown stone slab, is to be seen in St. Mark's 
Churchyard, with, the following inscription : 

Petkr Stittyesant, 

Late Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief, of Amsterdam, 

In New Netherlands, (now called New York,) 

And the Dutch West India Islands. 

Died la A. D. 16r>i— Aged 80 years. 



TRINITY CHURCH. 35 

" The history of the last mentioned person is in some points very remarkable. 
He was the only officer in the Continental army (except those of foreign birth) 
who bore a title — a fact which may thus be explained. William Alexander was 
born in this city, but he inherited a claim to an earldom and visited Scotland to 
contest it. He was unsuccessful, having spent a large part of his fortune in this 
vain attempt. When the Revolution began he entered the American service, 
and as an act of courtesy was called Lord Sterling, after the lost earldom. He 
had a command at Long Island, where he was taken prisoner, but was 
exchanged and resumed service. He was a devoted admirer of Washington, to 
whom he disclosed that cabal which disgraced the name of Conway. Lord 
Sterling was one of the oldest of the American officers, being Washington's 
senior by eleven years. He died in Albany in 1783, aged fifty-seven, and his 
body was brought to this city and deposited in the ancestral vault. The body 
of Robert Fulton, the originator of the first successful steamboat, was placed in 
the Livingston vault. It is to be noted that Fulton's death was caused by rowing 
across the Hudson River, where fifty steam ferryboats now ply. In 1815 Fulton, 
who had been attending an important lawsuit in New Jersey, desired to recross 
the river. He could not wait for the slow ferryboat, and therefore undertook to 
row. The distance is a mile, and he became overheated, took cold and fell into 
a rapid decline, which closed his career. On the south side of the inclosure 
stands the memorial of the great federalist whose tragic death adds a special 
interest even to the chronicles of genius. The inscription is as follows : 

To the memory of* 

Alexander Hamilton, 

The corporation of Trinity Church has erected 

Thia 

Monument 

In testimony of their respect 

For 

The Patriot of incorruptible integrity 

The soldier of approved valor 

The statesman of consummate wisdom 

Whose talents and virtues will be admired 

By 

Grateful posterity 

Long after this marble shall have mouldered into 

Dust 

He died July 12, 1804, aged 47." 

** Hamilton's oldest son, Philip, had been buried in the plot a little more than 
ten years before his own death, both being victims of duelling. Mrs. Hamilton, 
after a half century of widowhood, was also buried here in 1854, having reached 
the unusual age of ninety-seven. The monument to Captain James Lawrence, 
of the Chesapeake, occupies a prominent position near the entrance. The 
cannon which surround the sarcophagus are trophies captured from the 
British during the war in which Lawrence fell. Lawrence was a native of 
Burlington, New Jersey. He died in his thirty-second year, and the rapid pro- 
motion which gave him command of a first-class ship shows the confidence 
reposed in his ability as well as the courage which he had displayed. Lieutenant 
Ludlow, who fell at the same time with his commander, was only twenty-one. 
The epitaphs on these fallen heroes are among the finest specimens in existence 
of thla most difficult style of composition. On the reverse side is inscribed : 
*' Julia Montauvert, widow of Captain James Lawrence, born July 15, 1788. 
Died September 15, 1865." The Montauverts were an old New York family, 
and this unfortunate woman became a widow at twenty-five years of age, and 
rema;ned in that condition until her death, a period of fifty-two years. 



36 NEW YOKK AS IT WAS. 

In Trinity Churchyard, about forty feet southwesterly from the south side of 
the church, is a plain brown stone slab, on which are inscribed the words: "The 
vault of Walter and Robert C. Livingston, sons of Robert Livingston, of the 
Manor of Livingston." Within that vault repose the remains of Robert 
Fulton. He was born in 1765, in the town of Little Briton, in Pennsylvania^ 
in the same neighborhood in which Benjamin West was born. He died in the 
City of New York, Feb. 24, 1815, aged 50 years. 

" Among other leading men whose names are recorded here is Albert Gallatin. 
His tomb is in the rear of the church, and bears an elaborate epitaph. Mr. 
Gallatin was a native of Switzerland, and few of our adopted citizens have 
exercised greater influence in American aflfairs. He was the only man of foreign 
birth who attained a seat in the Cabinet, having served as Secretary of the 
Treasury during three presidential terms. As a financier he was preeminent. 
Mr. Gallatin died in 1849, aged eighty-eight years. 

" The first rector of Trinity Church was the Rev. William Vesey, and the 
salary allowed him was £100 ($500) a year, with a house. The sexton's fees were 
three shillings for ringing the bell at a funeral, six shillings for digging a grave 
and covering it, and three and sixpence for opening the church for marriages. 
Strangers were charged double. Vesey conducted the services for many years,, 
and was succeeded by the Rev. Henry Barclay. Both of these names are 
attached to streets laid out through the original farm. After these came Auch- 
muty, Inglis, Provost, Moore, Hobart, Barrian and Dix, the latter being the pre- 
sent rector. After the Revolution the salary was,fixed at £700, but at present it 
is $12,000, with a costly and elegant rectory. I'he increase in the income of 
the church is now very rapid. In 1847 it was $58,000, but a late report of the 
Comptroller of the Corporation gives the amount as $500,000. The present 
structure was consecrated May 25, 1846, and its entire cost was $358,629. A 
curious privilege of former days was that of burial in the chancel, which was 
obtained by the payment of a heavy fee. It cost £5 to bury the body of an 
adult in this sacred precinct ; children above ten years of age were charged half 
price, while all under ten were allowed admittance at five shillings. This was 
a relic of the old superstition concerning the sanctity of certain spots and the 
benefit conferred on the soul by such a disposal of the body." 

Trinity Parish now consists of seven churches, as follows : 

1. Trinity Church, Broadway, head of Wall street. 

2. St. PauVs Chapel, (built in 1766,) Broadway, bet. Fulton and Vesey streets. 

3. St. John's Chapel, (built in 1807,) Varick street. 

4. Trinity CMpel, 25th street, near Broadway. 

5. St. Chrysostom's Chapel, 7th avenue, cor. 39th Street. 

6. -S'^. Augustine's Chapel, 262 Bowery. 

7. St. Cornelius' Chapel, Governor's Island, New York Harbor. 

Charities, &c. 

There are numerous Charitable Institutions attached to the Parish at large, and 
not connected with any particular church therein. 



THE FIRST STEAMBOAT MAYORS, 



37 



THE FIRST STEAMBOATS ON THE HUDSON. 

The first steamboat built by Robert Fulton was the " Clermont," or " North 
Tliver," 160 tons burden. This steamer was launched in the Spring of 1807, 
and finished in August following. In September the vessel made her first trip 
to and from Albany, 145 miles. She went to Albany in thirty-two hours and 
returned in thirty. " The inhabitants near the shores along the river were lost 
in wonder r.nd regarded her as a phenomenon beyond their comprehension." 
The building of the steamer " Raritan," to be employed on the Raritan River, 
New Jersey, and the " Car of Neptune," of 295 tons, to be employed on the 
Hudson, followed. In 1811, the " Paragon, " of 331 tons, was built. In 1812, 
the "Fire Fly," of 118 tons, and the " Richmond," of 370 tons, to be also em- 
ployed on the Hudson. In 1813, the "Fulton," of 327 tons, to run on Long 
Island Sound. In 1818, the " Olive Branch," to be employed between New 
York and New Brunswick, N. J., and the " Chancellor Livingston," of 526 tons, 
to be employed on the Hudson. These vessels were all built in the Port of New 
York. The " Olive Branch " and ** Chancellor Livingston " were built after Mr. 
Pulton's death, which occurred in the City of New York February 24, 1815. 



MAYORS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK— During the Past 100 Years. 



Tears. 

Whitehead Hicks. 1766-76 

David Matthews (Revolutionary 

War) 1776-83 

James Duane _ 1784-89 

Richard Varick 1789-1801 

Edward Livingston 1801-1803 

DeWitt Clinton, 

1803-07, 1808-10, 1811-15 

Marinus Willett 1807-08 

Jacob Radcliff 1810-11, 1815-18 

John Furguson, March to June.. .1815 

Cadwallader D. Colden 1818-21 

•Stephen Allen 1821-23 

William Paulding.. ..1823-25, 1826-29 

Phillip Hone 1825-26 

Walter Bowne 1829-33 

Gideon Lee 1833-34 

Cor. W. Lawrence* 1834-37 

Aaron Clark 1837-39 



Years. 

Isaac L. Varian 1839-41 

Robert H.Morris .1841-44 

James Harper 1844-45 

Wm. F. Havemeyer.. 1845-46, 1848-49 

Andrew H. Mickle 1846^7 

William V. Brady 1847.48 

Caleb S. WoodhulL 1849-50 

Ambrose C. Kingsland... 1851-52 

Jacob A. Westervelt 1853-54 

Fernando Wood 1855-58, 1860-61 

Daniel N. Tiemann 1858-59 

George Opdyke 1862.63 

C. Godfrey Gunther. 1864-65 

John T. Hoffman 1866-68 

Thomas Coman (Pres. Board of 

Aldermen) .1868 

A. Oakey Hall 1869-70 

Wm. F. Havemeyer 1871-74 

Wm. H. Wickham. 1875-76 



* The first Mayor elected by the people of the City. 



38 NEW YORK AS IT WAS. 

CENSUS RETURNS FOR 200 YEARS. 

A Table op the Population op the City op New York, op the State op 
New York and op the United States at Dipperent Periods. 

Tears. City. State. TJnited States. 

1673 2,500 

1703*. 20,067 

1831* 8,628 50,824 

1746* 61,589 

1756*. 10,881... 96,790 Est 1,250,000 

1771* 21,876 163,3371.... " 2,500,()00 

1786* 23,614 ._ 280,000 " 3,250,000 

1790-lst U. S. Census. . _ 33,131 340,120 3,929,827 

1800.2dU. S. Census... 60,489 588,603 5,305,925 

1805. 75,770.- 

1810.3d U. S. Census.. - 96,373 961,888 7,239,814 

1815* 100,619 1,035,910 

1820.4thU.S. Census. -- 123,706. ..1,372,812. 9,638,131 

1825*. 166,809. ..1,614,456. 

1830.5thU.S. Census-. - 202,589. .1,913,131 12,866>,92(> 

1835* - 270,068. ...2,174,517. 

1840.6th U. S. Census... 312,852.. 2,428,921. 17,062,566; 

1845* 371,223 2,604,495.... 

1850.7tli U. S. Census- - . 515,394 3,097,394. 23,191,876 

1855* 629,810 3,466,212. 

1860.8th U. S. Census. . . 814,254 3,880,735 31,443,321 

1865* 726,386 .3,831,777 

1870.9th U. S. Census-.- 942,292 4,382,759^ 38,555,88a 

1875* 1,064,272. 4,705,208 

NOTE.— The relative proportion of the population of the City to that of the whole State has 
generally been from one-eighth to one-tenth ; and. the State of New York has borne about the 
same relative proportion also to the whole United States. Of late years the City has been 
increasing in population faster than the State. 

The steady growth of the City of New York in population, commerce and 
wealth for the past two hundred years, has placed this favored Metropolis at the 
head of all the cities of America, while rivaling most of the cities of the civilized 
world, London and Paris alone exceeding it in several particulars. Including 
its immediate suburbs, it may be ranked as the second city on the globe. 



RICH MEN OF NEW YORK FIFTY YEARS SINCE. 

Copied prom Valentine's Manual, 1864. 
Giving the Names of all who were taxed on Personal Estate of $20,000 and 



over. 



Name. Assessment, 



Name. Assessment, 1820. 

Astor, John Jacob (?) $10,000 

Bailey, Benjamin 25,000 



Adams, John. $ 25,000 

Anthony, Widow. 25,000 

Aspinwall, John M 400,000 j Bates', Frederick G 50,000 

♦State census. tOf whom 19,863 were blacks. XOl whom 52,081 were colored. 



BICH MEN FIFTY YEARS SINCE. 



39 



Name. Assessment, 1820. 

Bayard, Robert $30,000 

Bayard, William 70,000 

Beekman, Henry 20,000 

Beekman, Stephen D 25,000 

Bethune, Divie 30,000 

Blackwell , Joseph 20,000 

Boardman, Daniel. . . 50,000 

Bogart, James 40,000 

Boggs, James 20,000 

Botton, Curtis 55,000 

Boorman, James 20,000 

Brinckerhoflf, Abraham 60,000 

Bronson, Isaac 50,000 

Brown, Robert 20,000 

Buchanan, George 20,000 

Buchanan, Mrs. Thomas 20,000 

Buck, Gordon 20,000 

Byers, James 20,000 

Byrnes, Thos. L 30,000 

Cairns, William 30,000 

Carow, Isaac 20,000 

Chauncey, Commodore 30,000 

Clark, John 25,000 

Clarkson, Thos. L 20,000 

Clendening, John 100,000 

Coles, Benj. A 20,000 

Colvill, John 25,000 

Coster, Henry A. (Estate of). 500,000 

Coster, John G 300,000 

Dash, John B 25,000 

De Forest, Benj 20,000 

DeRham, H. C 50,000 

De Wolf, James 15,000 

Douglas, Mrs. M 100,000 

DuBois, Cornelius 25,000 

Dunham, David 50,000 

Duyckinck, Evert. 15,000 

Eckf ord, Henry 50,000 

Edgar, William 140,000 

Edgar, Wm.N 30,000 

Ellison, Thomas 30,000 

Flock, John. 25,000 

Foster, Andrew 20,000 

Gantley, Daniel 20,000 

Gardner, J. (Executor) 40,000 

Gebhard, Frederick 30,000 

Gelston, David 40,000 

Giraud, Jacob P 20,000 

Goelet, Peter P 60,000 

Grade, Archibald 20,000 



Name. 



Assessment, 



Griswold, George .„ $22,000 

Hadden, David 20,000 

Haggerty, John 25,000 

Haight, B. «& H 20,000 

Harmony, Peter _ 55,000 

Harrison, Richard 30, 000 

Hart, Peter G 30,000 

Hazard, Thomas 20,000 

Heevey, Cornelius _ 20,000 

Hendricks, Herman 80,000 

Heyer, Isaac 20,000 

Hicks, Samuel 50,000 

Hone, John_ 60,000 

Hone, Philip 60,000 

Howard, William 35,000 

Howland, G. G. 20,000 

Howland, John H 25,000 

Hoyt, Gould. 20,000 

Hubbard, David G 20.000 

Jauncey, William 120,000 

Jenkins, Widow 20,000 

Jones, Isaac 20,000 

Jones, Joshua 60,000 

Jones, Margaret 20,000 

Kissam, Michael S 1 5,000 

Lambert, David R 20,000 

Larue, Lewis 25,000 

Laverty, Henry 20,000 

Lawrence, A. H 30,000 

Lawrence, Richard R 25,000 

Lawrence, William 50,000 

Leake, John G 50,000 

Leggett, Samuel 50,000 

Lenox Robert - . . 160,000 

Leroy, Herman 80,000 

LeRoy, Robert 40,000 

Levy, Jacob 20,000 

Little, Jonathan 25,000 

Livingston, Brockholst 30,000 

Livingston, Robert L 30,000 

Lorillard, Jacob 60,000 

Low, Nicholas 20,000 

Ludlow, Gulian 20,000 

Lutson, Arthur. 20,000 

McAdam, Ann 20,000 

McCormick, Daniel 25,000 

McFarland 30,000 

Moore, B 50,000 

I Mowatt, John J 40,000 

! Nichols, Edward H 40,000 



4:0 



NEW YORK AS IT WAS. 



Name. Assessment, 1820. 

Nixon, Thomas $20,000 

Ogden, Jonathau 20,000 

Oothout, Catharine 25,000 

Oothout, Mrs. -.. 25,000 

O vering, Henry 70,000 

Pierson, Isaac 20,000 

Post, Gerardus 20,000 

Post, William... 25,000 

Prime, Nathaniel 75,000 

Rankin, Henry 25,000 

Ray, Cornelius 60,000 

Remsen, Daniel 25,000 

Remsen, Peter 50,000 

Rhinelander, William 80,000 

Robbins, John 30,000 

Rogers, Benj. W 25,000 

Rogers, Henry 30,000 

Rogers, Moses. 60,000 

Rogers, Nehemiah 20,000 

Roosevelt, James 20,000 

Salles, Lawrence 50,000 

Sanf ord, Nathaniel 40,000 

Schermerhorn, John S 25,000 

Schermerhorn, Peter 50,000 

Shepherd, Allen 28,000 

Sherred, Jacob _ _ 30,000 

Shot well, Joseph 20,000 

Smith, Edmund 50,000 

Smith, Gamaliel 20,000 

Total Assessed Valuation of property (1820), $69,530,753 ; total City and State 
Tax, $339,891.94. 

Note. — For the purpose of illustrating the great change that has taken place 
in regard to individual wealth, during the past fifty years, we quote the above 
List of Rich Men of 1820, residing in the City of New York, most of whom are 
remembered by many persons now living. Accumulated wealth is now counted 
by the millions instead of the tens and hundred thousand as in former days. 
During the past thirty or forty years the immense wealth, extravagance and cor- 
ruption in City affairs have rapidly increased. 



Name. Assessment, 1820. 

Smith, Jotham $25,000 

Smith, Thomas H. Jr 180,000 

Stewart, Alex. L 25,000 

St. John, Samuel 25,000 

Storm, Garret -.. 22,000 

Strong, Benj. 28,000 

Suffern, Thomas.. 20,000 

Swan, Benj. L 30,000 

Taylor, John... ' 35,000 

Thompson, Francis 50,000 

Thompson, G.L 25,000 

Thompson, James. 90,000 

Thompson, Jeremiah 30,000 

Thorne, Stephen 35,000 

Tibbets, Mrs.. 60,000 

Trumbull, Col. John 25,000 

Vandenheuvel, John C 110,000 

Van Wyck, Stephen 25,000 

Varick, Richard 70,000 

Walton, Gerard 60,000 

AVard, Samuel 25,000 

Watts, John 30,000 

White, Eve 20,000 

Whitney, Stephen 160,000 

Wilkes, Charles 20,000 

Wilson, William 35,000 

Wright, Isaac 25,000 

Youle, George 35,000 



FORTY YEARS SINCE ; or, " New York as It Was and as It Is." 

Having in the year 1833-34, published an original Work, entitled '^ New York 
As It Is,'^* edited by the late Edwin Williams, and continued the same from 
year to year, until 1837, we present, in brief, the changes that have occurred in 
the City of New York during the past foi^ty years ; taking up the subjects as 
they appeared in the original volumes. 

* John Distubnell, 155 Broadway. 



HAELEM RAILROAD MANHATTAN WATER WORKS. 41 

OOMMENCEMENT OF RAILROAD BX7ILDING IN 1834. 
Harlem Railroad. 

*''■ The New York and Harlem Railroad Company was incorporated in 1831, 
with a capital of $350,000, for the purpose of constructing a railroad from the 
central part of the City to Harlem. The road is completed from Prince Street to 
Yorkville, 5 miles ; a single track is laid on granite sleepers, in the best manner, 
from Prince Street to Union Place, where a double track commences, and which 
is laid on granite sleepers to Twenty-third, and on wood as far as Eighty-fourth 
Street, or Yorkville. The road was begun to be used as far as Murray Hill in 
June, 1833 ; and up to Feb. , 1834, the total number of passengers carried was 
89,094. For several months cars drawn by horses have been in operation from 
Prince Street to Yorkville, and they now run as often as once in each half-hour 
every day in the week. The fare for each passenger is 12| cents." 

Stage Lines, 1834. 

Lines of Sta^es^ during close of navigation, from December to March, ran 
daily from Cortlandt Street to Albany, on both sides of the Hudson River. 

SteaTTiboais and Stage Lines also ran to Philadelphia. Office, No. 1 Cortlandt 
Street. 

Stages run daily, carrying the United States Mail, to New Haven, Boston, &c. 

Stages started from Brooklyn Ferry, Fulton Street, every hour, for different 
parts of Long Island; also, from foot Cortlandt Street, hourly, for different 
parts of New Jersey. 

City Stages and Omnibusses ran through Broadway and the Bowery to Four- 
teenth Street, and to the Dry Dock, East River ; also, to Yorkville, Harlem and 
Manhattan ville. 

"Supply of Water, 1834." 

" The city is destitute of a supply of good and wholesome water, and various 
plans have been prepared at different times, for obtaining an adequate quantity 
of an element so essential to the health, convenience and comfort of the citizens. 
The Bronx and Croton Rivers have been suggested as sources of supply ; also the 
Passaic at Paterson, New Jersey. The quantity of water required for the sup- 
ply of the city, is estimated at over four millions of gallons per day, or 20 gal- 
lons for each person, including manufacturers, stables, i&c." 

Manhattan Water Works. 

" In 1779, the Manhattan Company was incorporated, with a view to supply the 
City with pure and wholesome water. The charter is perpetual, and the capital 
$3,050,000, the surplus funds being employed in banking. From this law 



42 NEW YORK AS IT WAS. 

originated the ManJmttan Bank. The Company had, by the charter, the control 
over the streams and springs on New York Island, and the County of Westches- 
ter, for the above object. Their works were situated in Reade street, a short 
distance north of the City Hall. The water is raised by two steam engines, 
from a well in Cross street, elevated 15 feet above Broadway, from whence the 
water is distributed in iron and wooden pipes to the lower part of the City." 
Proposed Supply of Water from the Croton and Bronx Rivers,— 1834. " 
*' Surveys of routes and estimates of the expense of bringing water to the 
City, from the Croton and Bronx Rivers, have been recently made by order of 
the corporation. An Act passed the Legislature of the State, May 2, 1834, 
♦ to provide for supplying the City of New York with pure and wholesome 
water,' by which the Governor and Senate are authorized to appoint five citizens, 
to be called ' Water Commissioners,' who are to examine and consider all 
matters relating to the subject, cause surveys to be made, and adopt such plans 
as they may deem most advantageous. Said commissioners selected were, 
Stephen Allen, Benjamin M. Brown, Charles Dusenberry, Samuel Alley and 
William W. Fox. If a majority of the electors are found to be in favor of the 
measure to be reported by the commissioners, the Common Council are author- 
ized to raise by loan, $2,500,000. The united streams which can be brought to 
the City in an aqueduct, are estimated to aflord a daily supply of 33 millions 
of gallons. The total length of the aqueduct which is proposed to be constructed 
of mason work, will be about 47 miles, and the estimated expense (exclusive 
of pipes in the City), is from five to six millions of dollars." 

CHURCHES IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK— 1834. 

Presbyterian 33 

Episcopalian 24 

Methodist 19 

Baptist 18 

Dutch Reformed 15 

Roman Catholic. 6 

Friends 4 



Universalists 3 

Jews 3 

Lutheran _ 3 

Unitarian _ 3 

Independent 2 

Moravian _ 1 

Miscellaneous 3 



Total 135 

BANKS— 1834. 

Branch Bank of the United States, chartered April, 1816, to endm^e 20 years. 
Capital of the parent bank, $35,000,000 ; New York branch employed $2,500,000. 
There were twenty-one State Banks and three Savings' Banks ; twenty-four Fire 
Insurance Companies, and eleven Marine Insurance Companies ; also one Life 
Insurance and Trust Company, incorporated March 9th, 1830, with a capital of 
$1,000,000. 



POPULATION — OCEAN STEAMERS, ETC. 43 

POPULATION, ETC. 

The total Population of the City of New York in 1830 was 202,589. In 1833, 
the total expenses of the City were $933,829.76. The City was then divided into, 
fifteen Wards — now twenty-four Wards. 

Assessed value of Real Estate $114,124,566 00- 

" Personal Property 52,366,976 00 

Total Valuation (1833).- $166,491,542 00 

The above Statements show the rapid increase of the City of New York 
dnring the past forti/ years. Then there was no d'oton Water Works or Central 
Park ; no Locomotives running into tJie City ; no Steamships, Telegraphs or Express. 
Companies. 



OCEAN STEAMERS AND RAILROADS. 

Lines of Steamers Running from New York, 1851-62. 

The British and North American Royal Mail Steamers — (Cunard Line) 
commenced running from Liverpool to Boston and New York in 1840, being 
the first line of European Steamers established. In 1852, the fleet consisted of 
the Ameinca, Asia, Africa, Arabia, Canada, Can^ria, Europa, Niagara and 
Persia. The Boston ships only calling at Halifax, N. S. 

E. CuNARD, Jr., Agent, 38 Broadway. 

New York and Liverpool U. States Mail Steamers (or Collins Line),, 
commenced running in 1850. The steamer Atlantic, Capt. West, made the first 
trip from New York, April 27, 1850. The ships consisted of the Atlantic^ 
Adriatic, Arctic, Baltic and Pacific*. These ships were built by contract expressly 
for Government service, every care being taken in their construction, as also in 
their engines, to ensure strength and speed. 

E. K. Collins & Co., Agents, 56 Wall Street. 

New York and Havre Steam Navigation Company. The U. States Mail 
Steamers, the Franklin and Humboldt, formed the line from New York to Havre' 
and Southampton, England. 

Mortimer Livingston, Agent, 53 Broadway. 

Ocean Steam Navigation Company. — United States Mail Line to Southampton, 
and Bremen. Steamers Hermann and Washington. 

MoLLER, Sand & Co. , Agents, 26 South Street. 

United States Mail Steamship Company, for Havana., New Orleans, King- 
ston and Chagres, N. G. , connecting with the Pacific Mail Steamers at Panama. 

M. O. Roberts, 177 West Street. 

Vanderbilt's New Line of Steajsiships, for California, by the way of Nica- 
ragua. Ofllce, No. 9 Battery Place, New York. 

The above six lines of Ocean Steamers, most of them American built, were 
running from and to New York in 1852. 

*The Pacific foundered at sea, and the Arctic was sunk in mid ocean, Sept. 27, 1854. 



44 NEW YORK AS IT WAS. 

RAILROADS. 

Railroads Finished and Running from New York in 1852. 

New Yokk and Haklem Railroad, incorporated in 1831, was opened to 
Dover Plains, Dntcliess County, in 1851, and completed to Chatham Four Cor- 
ners, Columbia County, in the year 1852, 180 miles, connecting with the Albany 
■uhd Wed ^^tockhridge Mailroad, forming a througli railroad route from New York 
to Albany. Capital, $8,000,000; cost of construction, $10,128,765. 

Hudson River Railroad, chartered in May, 1846; capital, $4,000,000. This 
road was completed in October, 1851, at a total cost for construction and equip- 
ment, to October, 1857, of $12,845,757. It started from the depot in Chambers 
street, in the City of New York, and ran on the east side of the Hudson River, 
through the counties of Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Columbia and Rensse- 
laer to East Albany, a distance of 144 miles, connecting with the Tray and 
G-reenbush Railroad, 6 miles in length. 

Long Island Railroad, chartered in 1834, with a capital of $1,500,000. The 
first run over the entire line, 96 miles, from Brooklyn, to Greenport, L. I., was 
made on the 27th July, 1844, and the road was formally opened for public use 
on the 9th of August, following. A branch road runs from Junction to Hemp- 
stead, 2^ miles, and another from Hicks ville to Syosset, 4| miles. Total cost of 
construction, $2,555,986. 

New York and New Haven Railroad was incorporated in 1844, by the 
Legislature of Connecticut, and in 1846 by the Legislature of the State of New 
York. The road proper is 63 miles in length, extending to the City of New 
York from Williams' Bridge, 14 miles further. At William's Bridge it forms a 
Junction, New York and Harlem Railroad. The whole distance traversed by 
the cars is 76 miles, connecting with the Housatoiiic Railroad at Bridgeport, 
Connecticut. It was finished in 1852, at a cost of $5,483,221, being upwards of 
$80,000 per mile. 

New York and Erie Railroad. This important Company was first incor- 
porated in 1882, with a capital of $10,000,000. It extends from Jersey City, 
opposite the City of New York, to Dunkirk, situated on Lake Erie, 40 miles 
south of Buffalo. It is 460 miles in length, with a branch terminus at Piermont, 
24 miles north of New York, 18 miles in length. It was finished in May, 1851, 
at a total cost, to September, 1857, of $39,081,468. It runs through the counties 
'Of Rockland, Orange (part of Pennsylvania), Sullivan, Delaware, Broome, Tioga, 
Chemung, Steuben, Alleghany, Cattaraugus, and Chatauqua to Lake Erie, thus 
uniting, by one direct route, the Atlantic with the Great Lakes of America. A 
branch road has since been completed from Hornellsville to Buffalo and Niagara 

In addition to the above Railroads running from the City of New York in 
1852, there were finished and running in New Jersey the Camden and Amboy 
Railroad, and the New Jersey Railroad, extending to Philadelphia, 90 miles; also, 
the Morris and Essex Railroad, and the Paterson and Hudson River Railroad. In 
1852, X\iQ Central Railroad of Neic Jersey was finished from Jersey City to White 
House, N. J., 50 miles from New York; since completed to Easton, Penn. 

The Railroads and branches, now centering in the City of New York (1875), 
extend to all parts of the Union, connecting with steamers on all the navigable 
rivers and lakes of the United States and Canada. 

It was not until the middle of the 19th Century (1850) that Steamships and 
Railways were fairly inaugurated in the United States-now both systems are 
nearly complete, involving an immense amount of capital. 



CHKONOLOGICAL SIvETCH OF IMPORTANT EVENTS. 45 

CHRONOLOGICAL SKETCH OF IMPORTANT EVENTS. 
In the Early History of New York— 1609 to 1784— a Period of 175 Year* 

1609. — (Sept. 6.) A boat's crew from Hudson's vessel (then anchored within 
Sandy Hook) passed through the "Narrows," and discovered Manhat- 
tan Island. Sept. 11. The "Half Moon," of 80 tons, anchored in what 
is now the Bay of New York, and afterwards proceeded up the Hudson 
River to above Albany. 

1610. — Hudson's last voyage in search of a Northwest Passage was begun in 
April of this year, sailing in the bark "Discovery," from England. 
He passed along the coast of Labrador and discovered the great bay 
which bears his name, and wintered there. He was, however, cruelly 
deserted by a mutinous crew, and left to perish with his son John, 
having never been heard from. 

1611. — A vessel dispatched by Amsterdam merchants to Manhattan Island to 
establish a trading depot. 

1613. — The trading post on this island consisted of four houses. 

1614. — A fort was erected on the south end of the Island, and further settlements 
effected. 

1621. — The Dutch West India Company chartered. 

1624. — Peter Minuit arrived at Manhattan Island as Director. 

1626. — The Island of Manhattan, estimated then to contain 22,000 acres, pur- 
chased from the Indians for $24. 

1629. — Charter of privileges to the Colonists granted. 

1632. — Director Minuit returned to Holland. 

WouTER Van Twiller arrived as Director, 

1633. — The tirst church erected of wood, in the present Bridge street, the 

dominie or pastor being the Rev. Everardus Bogardus. 
1635. — The first English settlers domiciled in New Amsterdam. 
1638. — William Kieft succeeded Van Twiller as Director. 
1641. — The first war between the Dutch and Indians commenced. 
1642. — A new stone church commenced within the walls of the fort. 

The first city lots granted to individuals ; before that, all were ' * squatters. '* 

1643. — The suburbs of New Amsterdam devastated by the Indians. 

1647. — Peter Stuyvesant succeeds Kieft as Director-General. 
1648. — Every Monday declared a market day. 

A wooden wharf completed on the East River on the present line of 

Moore street. 
1652. — A municipal form of government granted to the City. 
1653. — Palisades erected along the outskirts of the town (along Wall street) in 

apprehension of invasion by the English. 

A City Hall first established at the head of Coenties Slip. 

The first magistrates (burgomasters and schepens) appointed. 

1655. — The city attacked by a band of savages, who were repulsed with loss. 
1656, — The city surveyed, and the streets (17 in number) laid down on a map. 

A Census of the City taken, giving 120 houses and 1,000 inhabitants.. 

The first houses built in Wall street. 

1657. — The ditch through Broad street sided up with boards, 

First Treasurer of the City appointed (Van Cortland). 

1G58. — Several of the streets first paved with stone. 

A market-house for sale of meat erected on present site of Bowling 

Green, being the first market-house in the city. 



46 NEW YORK AS IT WAS. 

Fire buckets and hooks and ladders first furnished for the town. 

Slaves only to be whipped upon application to the burgomasters. 

The first public well dug in Broadway. 

1659.— Brick and tiles imported from Holland. 

A foreign trade first allowed to merchants of this city. 

A day of prayer set apart in New Amsterdam on account of the progress 

of Quaker doctrines. 
1660.— Made the duty of Sheriff to go around the city in the night; but hecon;- 

plains that the dogs attack him; also, that the people occasion frights 

by halloing "Indian" in the night. 
1664.— The City surprised and taken by the English, and the name changed to 

New York. Col. Richard Nichols, Governor of the Province. 

The name of Fort Amsterdam changed to Fort James. 

Population of the City, 1,500. 

1665. — Manhattan Island incorporated under the government of a Mayor, Alder- 
men and Sheriff. 

Jury trials first established in this City. 

The City Records kept in both Dutch and English. 

1668. — Col. Francis Lovelace succeeds Nichols as Governor. 

1669. — The Duke of York sends the 3Iayor and Aldennen civic gowns, a Silve*' 
Mace and a City Seal. 

1673. — The City retaken by the Dutch, and the old order of Municipal Govern- 
ment re-established. Anthony Colve appointed Governor. 

1674. — The City and Province ceded to England by the Dutch, and the name of 
New York finally restored. Sir Edmund Andros, Governor. 

1676. — Persons permitted to cut wood on any part of the Island at the distance 
of a mile from habitation. 

The open ditch in Broad street converted into a sewer. 

1677. — Seven public wells first erected in the streets of the city, "For the pub- 

lique good of the cytie." 
1678.— An Admiralty Court established. 
1682.— Population about 2,000 whites, besides negroes and slaves; number of 

houses 207, besides barns and sheds. 
1683.— Col. Thomas Dongan, Governor. 

Dongan's charter gi'anted. City divided into six Wards. 

1684. — Aldermen and Common Councilmen first chosen by the people. 
1685. — Assessors' valuation of property, £75,694. 

1686.— Seal of the City, with the inscription " Sigillum Novi Eboraci," pre- 
sented. 

1688.— Wall street laid out thirty-six feet wide. 

1691.— Col. Slaughter, Governor. The latter died suddenly the same year, and 
was succeeded by Major Richard Ingoldsby. 

A ducking stool (for punishment of criminals) erected on the wharf in 

front of the City Hall. 
1692.— The present Pine, Cedar and adjoining streets laid out through old 
Damen farm. 

(August.) Col. Benjamin Fletcher arrives as Governor. 

1693.— The first printing press estabhshed by William Bradford. 
A bridge built by the City at " Spiken Devil." 

1695.— The streets cleaned by contract at £30 per annum. 

1696.— The first Trinity Church erected; also, the first Dutch Church in Garden 
street commenced. 




CHKONOLOGICAL SKETCH OF IMPORTANT EVENTS. 47 

1697. — Lamps first hung out from every seventh house, upon a pole extending 

from the window. 
1698. — (April.) Earl Bellamont arrives as Governor. 
1699. — The old palisades in Wall street demolished. 

A new City Hall (in Wall street) erected. 

A market-house erected at Coenties Slip. 

1701. — Earl of Bellamont died in this city. 

A market-house erected at the present Old Slip. 

1702. — (May.) Lord Lounsbury arrived as Governor. 
1703. — Trinity Churchyard granted to the Church by the city. 

Population of the city, 5,250. 
-French Church in Pine street erected. 
-Broadway paved from Wall street to Bowling Green. 
-Lord Lo\"elace arrives as Governor. 
-Market-house built foot of Wall street. 

-Luthern Church erected, corner Broadway and Rector street. 
Col. Hunter amves as Governor. 
-Ordered that negro slaves, for hire, stand in rank in the market-house, 

foot of Wall street. 
-Broadway, between Maiden Lane and the present Park, levelled. 

First negro plot in New York, in which several whites were killed ; nine- 

teen negroes were executed. 
1714. — First application for authority to raise a yearly tax, (£120) for support of 

the City (not granted). 
1719. — Presbyterian Church in Wall street erected. 
1720. — WiLLiAJNi Burnet appointed Governor. 
1725. — The first newspaper (the New York Gazette), published in tliis City by 

William Bradford. 
1728. — John Montgomerie, Governor. 
1729. — Dutch Church in Nassau street erected. 

1730. — Stages nui to Philadelphia, once a fortnight, in the winter months. 
1731. — Gov. Montgomerie died; Rip Van Dam, Lieutenant-Governor. 

City divided into seven Wards. 

1732. — Market-house erected at foot of Fulton street. North river, for accom- 
modation of people from New Jersey. 

William Corby appointed Governor. 

1734. — A work-house erected in the present Park. 

Cortlandt street laid out, and ceded to the city. 

1735. — City watch increased to ten men and two constables. 
1736. — Gov. Corby died; George Clarke, Lieutenant-Governor. 
1737.— Trinity Church rebuilt. 

1739. — Market-house erected in Broadway, opposite Maiden Lane. 

1741. — The Negro plot; several houses set on fire; many negroes and several 

wdiites executed. 
1743. — George Clinton appointed Governor. 

The Newspaper called the ** Postboy," published by James Parker. 
-King's College (now Columbia) first proposed. 
-Beekman and contiguous streets regulated. 
-Pearl street regulated from Franklin Square to Chatham street. 
-The first Merchants' Exchange erected at foot of Broad street. 
St. George's Chapel, in Beekman street, erected. 

(January.) The East River frozen over, so that a .double-horse sleigh 
passed over to Long Island. 



48 NEW YORK AS IT WAS. 

1753,_Sm Danyftis Osborn, Governor, died soon after his arrival. James 

Delancy, Lieut. -Governor. 
1754.— King's College established under a royal charter. 
1755, —Ferry established to Staten Island. 

Sir Charles Hardy, Governor. 

1757._(May.) Troops embark from this city, destined for Canada. 

1760, — Cadwallader Colden, Lieutenant-Governor. 

1761. — Severe Winter; the Bay and Narrows frozen over. ^ 

17(32. — Robert Monckton appointed Governor. 

1763.— Powles Hook (Jersey City) ferry established. 

1764.— Methodist Church in John street erected; (still standing.) 

(June 13.) Sandy Hook light-house lighted for the first time. 

1765. — Henry Moore appointed Governor. 

(October.) Merchants resolved not to import goods from England, owing 

to opposition to the Stamp Act. 
1766. — The first liberty-pole erected in this city in the present Park. 

News of the repeal of the Stamp Act arrived in this city. 

1768. — The Brick Church, Beekman street, opened for religious service. 

1769. — The use of the Exchange in Broad street granted to the Chamber of 

Commerce. 
1770. — Statue of George III. erected on Bowling Green. 

John, Earl of Dunmore, Governor. 

1771.— WiLLL\M Tryon, Governor. Population of the city, 21,163. 

1772. — New York Society Library Incorporated. 

1773. — The first stone of New York Hospital laid by Gov. Tryon; the last of 

the British Governors. 
1774. — Hoboken Ferry established. 
1775. — HostiHties commence between the Colonies and Great Britain. 

(August.) The British frigate Asia fired on the town. 

1776. — (April 14.) Washington arrived in this city from Boston, after expelling 
the British. 

The American army in the city numbered 10,235 men. 

(August 22.) The British Army destined to attack New York, landed at 

Gravesend, L. I. 

(August 27.) Battle of Long Island, resulting in the defeat of the Ameri- 

cans, with severe loss. 

(Sept. 15.) The British landed at Kipp's Bay; the American army re- 

treated to Harlem. 

(Sept. 21.) Great fire in New York, destroying 493 houses, including 

Trinity Church. 

(November. ) Battle between Americans and British at Fort Washington ; 

the Americans defeated. 
1777.— (Sept.) A British expedition set out from New York, under General 

Vaughan,to relieve Burgoyne at Saratoga. 
■^n^-~(^^-.'^-^ Second great fire in New York, consumed 300 houses. 
ln9-80.— This Wmter was very severe; a beaten track for sleighs and wagons 

extended across the Hudson to Jersey City and Staten Island. 
1 4 81-82.— The British retained possession of New York. 

— — A Map of the City issued this year (1782), which appears in this volume. 
l(iio.—{]Sov. 20.) Ihe City of New York evacuated by the British, after the 

declaration of peace; General Washington and his army entered the 

City m triumph. Population of the City of New York (1784), 23,614. 



OLD INSTITUTIONS FORMATION OF WARDS. 49 

OLD INSTITUTIONS— Prior to 1800. 

Columbia College {Forvierly King's College).— This, venerable Institution was 
established under a royal charter in the year 1754, which has been confirmed by 
various acts of the Legislature since the Revolution, the principal of which is 
that of the 13th April, 1787. 

Cha:mbek, of Commerce op the State op New York. — First organized in 
April, 1768, is one of the oldest Institutions in the City. (See page — .) 

The " Society op the Cestclnnati" was formed by the Officers of the Army 
of the Revolution, June 19, 1783, of which, in 1786, the following was a list of 

Officer's — Alexander McDougall, Esq., President; Baron Steuben, Esq., Vice- 
President; Philip Cortlandt, Esq., Treasurer; Robert Pemberton, Esq., Sec. 

Society for promoting the Manumission op Slaves. Meets at the Coffee 
House in Wall street. 

officers for 1786. 

Hon. John Jay, Esq., President; John Murray, Jr., Treasurer; Samuel Frank- 
lin, Vice-President; John Keese, Esq., Secretary. 

General Society op Mechanics and Tradesmen. — Chartered March 14, 
1793; was early organized in the City of New York. (See page 103.) 

officers for 1786. 

Robert Boyd, Chairman; John Burger, Deputy Chairman; Hugh "Walsh, 
Treasurer; James Bingham, Secretary, 

Mutual Assurance Company, organized in 1787. Kame changed in 1841 to 
Knickerbocker Fire Insurance Company. 

Bank op New York, first organized in 1784; chartered March 21, 1791. 
FORMATION OF WARDS. 

In 1683, the City of New York was divided into six Wards, under the desig- 
nation of South, East, North, West, Dock, and Out Ward. 

The Montgomerie Charter, dated January 15, 1730, desighates, in addition to 
the above, the boundaries of the ' ' Montgomerie " Ward. 

By an Act of the Colonial Grovernment, passed Feb. 28, 1791, the Wards are 
designated numerically from 1 to 7, and the bounds of each described. 

By an Act of the Legislature, passed March 8, 1803, the Wards were increased 
to nine, and boundaries described. 

The 10th Ward was erected from the 7th in March, 1808. 

The 11th and 12 Wards were formed, and the boundaries all described by an 
Act passed April 25, 1825. 

13th Ward was erected from the 10th Ward, Act April 6, 1827. 

14th* - ' 

15th 

16th 

17th 

18th 

19th 

20th 

21st 

22d 

23d and 24th from ^ 

♦The 6th Ward formerly inchided that portion of the 14th Ward which lies eouth of Grand 
Street ; the remainder of the 14th Ward was taken from the 8th Ward. 

4 



6th and 8th 


1827. 


9th 


" March 23, 1832. 


12th 


"16, 1835. 


11th 


" Feb. 1, 1837. 


16th 


" " 19, 1846. 


12th 


" April 6, 1850. 


16th 


- July 9, 1851. 


18th 


" May 27, 1853. 


19th 


" June 22, 1853. 


Chester County. " 


" May 23, 1873. 



50 NEW YORK AS IT WAS. 

THE BRITISH OCCUPATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK— 

1776 TO 1783. 

Copied from an Address hy John Austin Stevens, Esq. 

" On the 15th of September, 1776, (soon after the disastrous battle on Long 
Island,) the British troops took possession of the city, and in their train were 
refugees from all sections. Later, traders and speculators came in hordes by 
every transport fleet from Great Britain, and a large business sprung up in the 
purchase and sale of army supplies, but the city itself found no profit in this 
abnormal traffic. The streets and buildings were allowed to go to decay, wilh 
the exception of temporary repairs for sanitary reasons, and the glories of the 
once thriving city were but a story of the past. 

' ' Two terrible conflagrations added to the measure of distress and ruin. 
Hardly had the British troops taken possession ere (on the 21st of September, 
1776), a disastrous fire breaking out in a small wooden house on the wharf near 
Whitehall, occupied by dissolute characters, spread to the northward, and con- 
sumed the entire city westward of Broadway to the very northernmost limit. In 
this terrible calamity, which owed its extent to the desertion of the city and the 
terror of the few remaining inhabitants, 493 houses were destroyed, including 
old Trinity and the Lutheran Church. Another destructive fire broke out on 
Cruger's wharf on the 3d of August, 1778, and burned about 54 houses. At last 
the fortune of war changed. The thunder of the American artillery at Sara- 
toga, where the sons of New York were in full force on her own battle-field, 
and at Yorktown, where the same gallant corps vied in friendly and not unequal 
rivalry with the trained ofiicers of France, had cleared, the sky, and beneath the 
smoke of battle peace was dawning in the near horizon. 

" On the 24th of March, 1783, Robert R. Livingston, the Secretary of Foreign 
Affairs, notified Washington, then at West Point, of the agreeable intelligence 
of a general peace, and on the 9th of April following, at 12 o'clock, peace was 
proclaimed from the steps of the City Hall by the Town Major The patriots 
were in glee, the English occupants and their friends in alarm. During the 
Summer there was a constant departure of the hostile fleets, and the Whigs be- 
gan to pour into the city and take possession of their deserted homes and estates. 
Feehng ran high, and the remaining loyalists awaited in terror the hour when 
the final withdrawal of the British forces should leave them helpless at the 
mercy of the irritated patriots. The prudent foresight of Gen. Washington, 
counselling 'moderation and steady behavior,' and the wise precautions of 
Gov. Clinton, happily arrested any disposition to excess, and in this they were 
nobly seconded by the Whig leaders, who, at the meeting to prepare for the re- 
ception of the American troops, after a signification of their opinion of those who 
had remamed in the city during the British occupation, by a request that any 
such withdraw from the room, pledged themselves to ' prevent any confusion 
that may arise on and after the day of evacuation. ' On the 25th day of Novem- 
ber the American army, under the command of Major-Gen. Henry Knox, 
marched from Harlem to the Bowery lane, where they remained until 1 o'clock, 
when, the British posts being withdrawn,, the American column marched in and 
took possession of the city. Nothing could have been more grateful to New- 
York than this disposition, for in Knox's artillery command was the favorite 
regiment commanded by Col. John Lamb, and oflicered by men who, like him- 
self, were of the earlier patriots and sons of liberty. The new era began upon 
this day ; henceforth New York was to move on her marvelous career In a 
few years she appears reorganized, rebuilt, with new architecture, new msXiiyi- 
tions, facile pnnceps the Imperial City of the Continent." 




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1^W\V YORK AS IT IS. 



PART II. 

DESCRIPTION OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW YORK. 
Situation and Extent. 



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View of New York from Weehawken 

rpHE City of New York, proper, 
-L the chief City of the Empire State 
and the Commercial Metropolis of the 
United States, is the third city of the 
civilized world in point of population, 
trade and commerce. It stands on an 
Island of the same name, situated on 
the East side of the estuary of the 
Hudson River, at its junction with a 
narrow Strait called the East River, 
opening into Long Island Sound 
through a passage called Hell Gate ; be- 
ing bounded by Westchester County on 
the North, on the East by the East 
River, and on the South and West by 
New York Bay and Hudson River, di- 
viding it from Long Island and New 
Jersey. It lies 18 miles from the Atlan- 
tic Ocean, passing through New York 
Bay and the "Narrows;" in N. lati- 



tude 40° 43' 43' W. long- 
itude 70' 0' 3' from 
Greenwich Ob., England. 
Mean Annual Tempera- 
ture 51° Fahr. ; elevated 
50 feet above the ocean. 

Its distance from Al- 
bany, the Capital of the 
State, is 144 miles; from Philadelphia, 
90 miles; from the City of Washing- 
ton, 228 miles, and from Boston, via 
Stonington and Providence, 214 miles. 

The Island, for the most part cov- 
ered with stores, warehouses and 
dwellings, is 13^ miles long. North 
and South, with an average width of 
li miles, the greatest width being on 
the line of 14th Street, 2^ miles. From 
this circumstance, its limited width, 
great inconvenience is felt by the busi- 
ness portion of the inhabitants in daily 
passing from the upper to the lower 
part of the City, where bankers, mer- 
chants and w^orking people congregate. 
On the North and the North-east, the 
land is separated from the main land 
(now forming the 23d and 24th Wards 
of the City, being taken from West- 



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NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



Chester County) by the Spuyten Du}-vil 
Creek, opening into the Hudson River, 
and by Harlem River, which connects 
with the Creek not far from King's 
Bridge, and opens into the East River, 
forming with the Creek a continuous 
but very winding water-way, 8 miles 
long. The Islajid, including Blackwell's, 
Randall's and Ward's Islands, and other 
Islands in the Bay, covers an area of 
about 22 square miles, or 14,000 acres, 
its highest point being 338 feet above 
tide water, at "Washington Heights. 
The above area has been nearly doubled 
by the annexation of territory from 
Westchester Co. , making about 40 sq. 
miles. The surface in many parts is 
elevated, broken and rocky, with a de- 
scent into the East and Hudson Rivers. 
Bay and Islands — Fortifications, &c. 
New York Inner Bay forms one of 
the finest harbors in the world; it is 
about 8 miles in length, N. to S., and a 
breadth varying up to 5 miles. It may 
be entered from the Ocean by three 
passages — the Narrows, East River or 
Long Island Sound, and Staten Island 
Sound — but the first, between Long Is- 
land and Staten Island, is at once the best 
and by far the most frequented channel. 
The bar of the mouth of the Outer Bay, 
between Sandy Hook and Long Island, 
has 21 feet of water at ebb tide ; and as 
the water rises about 5 feet, the largest 
chiss of ships may enter the Lower Bay. 
Within the bar, the water in the outer 
and inner Bays, and in the Hudson, is 
so deep that ships of the largest ton- 
nage lay close to the quays, and may 
proceed to a great distance up the Hud- 



son. The navigation of the Bay is but 
rarely impeded by ice. The great 
strength of the tide and the vicinity of 
the ocean keep it generally open. 

In the East River, extending in suc- 
cession towards Long Island Sound, 
are Blackwell's Island, with the Citj^ 
Penitentiary on the southerly end, a 
capacious Lunatic Asylum on the 
north, and a new Alms House in the 
middle section; Ward's Island, be- 
tween which and the former Hell Gate 
is situated, and Randall's Island, are 
all attached to the City and County. 

In the Bay, fronting the Battery, at 
the distance of little more than half a 
mile, and separated from Long Island 
by Buttermilk Channel, is Governor's- 
Island ; while toward the Jersey shore, 
and looking up the Hudson are Bedloe's 
and Ellis's Islands ; the three latter Is- 
lands are all strongly fortified and occu- 
pied by United States Troops. Fort 
Hamilton, on the Long Island shore, 
and Richmond, Tompkins, Columbus, 
and Lafayette (the latter a few years 
since destroyed by fire and not rebuilt), 
are erected at other points for guarding 
the approach to the City from a hostile 
foe. 

The navigation of the outer harbor, 
or Bay, is very easy, and w^ere it not for 
the risk of violating marine insurances, 
the services of pilots would seldom be 
required. The Light Vessel, about two 
miles east of Sandy Hook, is the first 
light to guide the mariner; then comes 
Sandy Hook Light and two Beacon 
Lights, situated near the north point of 
Sandy Hook. The Gedmy Channel 



LIMITS OF THE CITY — THE BATTERY, 



53 



forms the main entrance to the Lower 
Bay. The Xew Drop Beacon and the 
light on the east end of Staten Island, 
at the " Narrows," are next sighted, and 
New York Harbor entered. The new 
Quarantine Station is located on a shoal 
called West Bank, about one mile be- 
low Fort Tompkins. The entrance 
from Long Island Sound, through Hell 
Gate, is somewhat an intricate passage, 
which has lately been greatly improved 
I)y increasing the depth of water, under 
the direction of the U. States Govern- 
ment. Vessels, on entering the mouth 
of the North River, often come to 
anchor, and others run into the slips to 
load and discharge at the wharves, on 
both sides of the City, which are con- 
tinually crowded with ocean steamers 
and shipping, displaying the flags of 
all nations. 

The City and County possesses the 
same limits, occupying the entire sur- 
face of the Island of Manhattan, to- 
gether with the former towns of King's 
Bridge, Morrisania and "West Farms, 
which were annexed to the City by an 
Act of the Legislature, in 1873 ; they 
now form the 23d and 24th Wards of 
th|jCity. 
I^ew York or Manhattan Island is 
divided into 141,486 building lots, by 
survey, of which about one-half are 
appropriated. From Battery Point at 
the southern extremity, the City proper 
is regularly covered with streets and 
buildings for a distance of 5 miles, and 
also, but irregularly, 4 miles further to 
Harlem on the East side. On the West 
side again, it forms a concrete mass of 



stone and brick to about Sixtieth street, 
j thence less compactly to above Bloom- 
j ingdale, where it opens into the subur- 
I ban districts of Manhattanville and 
! Washington Heights. 
1 The panoramic view of the approach 
to the City from the sea is very fine, 
the shores of the Bay, with the Heights 
: in the background, being wooded down 
! to the water's edge and thickly studded 
with villages, farms and country man- 
sions. The view of the City itself 
from the Bay is less prepossessing; for 
the ground on which it is built, though 
undulating, being nowhere considera- 
bly elevated, but little of it is visible 
from the water, and it has no very 
striking object to arrest the eye. It is 
of a triang-ular shape, bearing, in this 
respect, some resemblance to Constan- 
tinople. The oldest portion of the 
City, at the apex of the southern ex- 
tremity of the triangle, has still, not- 
withstanding the important improve- 
ments effected of late years, some nar- 
row and crooked streets. At the ex- 
treme southern point of the City is lo- 
cated the Battery, an open green of 
about 10 acres, dotted with a few fine 
trees, and, once, a fashionable promen- 
ade of our forefathers. On the Battery 
is Castle Garden, an old brick fort, now 
used by the Commissioners of Emi- 
gration as a depot for emigrants on 
their arrival. Advancing to the more 
modern and improved regions of the 
City, we come to broad, straight 
thoroughfares, generally crossing one 
another at right angles. Broadway, the 
principal street of New York, and one 



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NEW TOEK AS IT IS. 



of the finest thoroughfares in the world, 
is a long and spacious avenue, 80 feet in 
width, extending in nearly a straight 
line for about six miles,and presenting a 
cmip d'mil of life, beauty, and diversity, 
almost unequalled, lined on either side 
as it is with edifices of striking and gen- 
erally noble style of architecture. Many 
of the great shops and stores in this 
and other leading streets are highly 
decorated, and present, on the whole, 
quite a sumptuous appearance. The 
dwelling-houses in the central parts of 
the City bring high prices, and indeed 
it may be said, that, to all classes 
other than the wealthy, house rents are 
almost intolerably burdensome. The 
pavement throughout the City is, in 
the main, good, and the sidewalks wide 
and clean. The dwelling-houses of the 
richer class are almost invariably mass- 
ive and stately buildings, of brown- 
stone frontage; while the humbler 
dwellings of red brick, set off by their 
brightly painted green blinds, present, 
too, a very bright and cheerful aspect. 

PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 

In enumerating the public buildings, 
which are described under their appro- 
priate heads, we shall first name 

The City Hall, 
Situated in the Park, about half a 
mile north from the Battery, and equi- 
distant from the East and North Rivers, 
standing in an open square of about 
eight acres, planted with trees and in- 
tersected by walks. It is 2G6 feet in 
length, by 105 feet in depth, with a 
height of 65 feet, and has a front of 



white marble. The building was begum 
' in 1803 and completed in 1812, at a cost 
of $538,734. The Mayor, Clerk of the 
Common Council, and many other city 
ofllcials have their ofiices in this build- 
ing. On the second floor is the Gover- 
nor's Room, 52 by 26 feet, used for the 
reception of distinguished visitors. The 
cupola contains a four-dial clock, illu- 
minated at night by gas. 

A fountain stands in front of the City 
Hall, surrounded by paved walks, trees 
and grass'plat. 

The New Court House, 
Fronting on Chambers street, con- 
structed of East Chester and Massa- 
chusetts white marble, in the Corin- 
thian style, was begun in 1862, and is 
not completed, although an immense 
amount of money has been expended 
on the edifice. It is 250 feet long, 150. 
feet wide, and the crown of the dome 
is to be 210 feet above the pavement. 
It was first used in 1867, and accommo- 
dates the County Clerk, Sheriff, Sur- 
rogate and other City and County offi- 
cers ; in part being used as Court Rooms 
for the Court of Appeals, etc. 
Hall of Records, 
Stands on the cast side of City Hall 
Park. It is a stone building, originally 
the City Prison, and in 1832 used as a 
cholera hospital. This old, historic 
building of Revolutionary memory, has 
been remodeled and is now occupied 
and used as the Register's Olfice for 
the City and County of New York. 
City Prison. 

The principal building, called the 
" Tombs,'' occupies a block on Centra 



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55 



street; it is built of Maine granite, two 
stories high, in the Egj'ptian order of 
architecture. The structure is 253 by 
200 feet, and occupies the four sides of 
a hollow square. In the front are the 
rooms for the Court of Sessions, the 
Police Court, etc. The men's prison 
contains about 150 cells; the depart- 
ment for females is not so large. Crim- 
inals for murder, etc., are executed in 
the open court. 

The Penitentiary, situated on 
Blackwell's Island, is an immense stone 
edifice ; the main building is four stories 
high, surmounted by a tower ; there are 
also two wings, each extending upwards 
of 200 feet from the centre building. 
Police Head-Quarters. 

This is a large marble structure at 
300 Mulberry street, with elegant oflBces 
for ofl&cials; telegraphic communica- 
tions with each station-house ; rooms 
for the instruction of new members and 
the trial of offenders ; a rogue's gallery 
of portraits, together with rooms for 
the Health Department of the City. 

The New York County Jail is situ- 
ated in Ludlow street, where non-resi- 
dent debtors and others are detained 
for trial. This prison contains 87 cells, 
or rooms, mostly for debtors. 

The Essex Market Prison is situ- 
ated at 69 Essex street, and there is 
another prison-house on East 57th st. 

Jefferson Market Prison and 
court rooms is a new brick edifice. 

On Blackwell's Island, lying in the 
East River, opposite East Forty-eighth 
to Eighty-third street, are several im- 
portant City buildings, all under the 



charge of the Commissioners of Char- 
ities and Correction : Charity Hospi- 
tal, Fever Hospital, Small-pox Hospi- 
tal, Infant Hospital, Hospital for In- 
curables, Hospital for Paralytics, Alms 
House, Penitentiaiy, Lunatic Asylum, 
and Workhouse. The island is formed 
of a narrow strip of land, one and three- 
quarter miles long. It is kept in 
perfect order, and is well worthy a visit. 

"Ward's Island, situated at the junc- 
tion of the East and Harlem Rivers, 
contains a Hospital for Emigrants and 
a Lunatic Asylum. 

Randall's Island is situated a short 
distance north of Ward's Island. Here 
is a Nursery, in which children only 
two years old are committed. It usu- 
ally contains about 1,000 girls and boys 
who, if not claimed by their parents, 
are indentured, at a suitable age, to 
learn some useful pursuit. 
United States Government Buildings. 

Custom House.— The present United 
States Custom House, fronting on Wall 
street, between Hanover and William 
streets, covering a smidl block, stands on 
the site of the old Exchange Building, 
destroyed by fire in December, 1835. It 
is one of the finest and most substantial 
edifices in America, being built of 
Quincy granite. The building is 200 
feet long by 160 feet in width, and 77 
feet high. Its portico is supported by 
12 front, 4 centre and 2 rear Ionic col- 
umns, 38 feet long and 4^ feet in dia- 
meter, each being formed from a single 
granite block weighing 45 tons. The Ro- 
tunda is 80 feet in diameter, 80 feet high ; 
and the dome, which is 124 feet above 



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NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



the pavement, is supported by 8 pilas- 
ters of variegated Italian marble. The 
cost of its construction was $1,800,000. 
Here the Government collects about 
two-thirds of its customs revenue. 
Sub-Treasury Building. 

This noble edifice stands on conse- 
crated ground at the corner of Wall 
and Nassau streets, on the spot where 
stood the old Federal Hall, on the bal- 
cony of which Washington was inaug- 
urated as the first President of the 
United States. It is a white marble 
fire-proof structure, 90 feet front by 200 
feet deep, running through to Pine 
street, with a rotunda 30 feet in diam- 
eter. The present structure cost 
about $1,200,000, and was erected in 
1845. Here the United States Govern- 
ment deposits its gold, and here, under 
the direction of the Assistant Secretary 
of the Treasury, our national monetary 
transactions are made. 

United States Assay Office, 30 
and 32 Wall street, located in the old 
United States Branch Building, next to 
the Sub-Treasury Building. The Assay 
Office was established in 1851, with all 
the functions of the United States Mint 
at Philadelphia except coinage. The 
principal business here transacted is 
the assaying and refinery of gold and 
silver, which is run into bars, being 
then ready for coinage or exportation. 
New York Post Office. 

This grand structure, situated at the 
southern part of the City Hall Park, 
is the most imposing edifice of its kind 
in the United States. It is triangular 
in form, with a front on Broadway and 



Park Row. The walls are constructed 
of granite, five stories, beside basement 
and attic. The building accommodates 
both the Post Office and the United 
States District Court. 

In addition to the above details a 
general description of the building may 
be of interest. Ground was broken for 
the Post Office in August, 1869, and it 
will have cost, when completely fin- 
ished, about $8,000,000. The general 
plan is an immense triangle, inclosing 
an open triangular court. The light from 
this court extends down through three 
glass tessellated floors to the sub-cellar. 
The court is entirely open down to the 
first story. All the upper stories are well 
lighted and ventilated by this open 
space. The building, which is fire- 
proof throughout, occupies 21 city lots, 
has a frontage on Broadway of 340 feet, 
on Park Row of 320 feet, on the City 
Hall Park of 200 feet, and at its south- 
ern side a frontage of 130 feet. The 
height from the sidewalk to the lantern 
crowning the dome is 195 feet. 

The first two floors and the basement 
below are occupied by the Post Office, 
and the third and fourth floors by the 
United States Courts and offices, Dis- 
rict Attorney's office. United States 
Commissioners' office, Clerks' offices 
of the Circuit and District Courts, Law 
Library, etc. There are ten elevators 
for mail matter, and four for passen- 
gers. The building looms up grandly 
above the fine structures in the vi- 
cinity, and attracts and interests the 
attention of every beholder. The 
solid walls of the Post Office contain 



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57 



half a million cubic feet of granite. 
The business transacted in the Post 
Oflace in this City is something mar- 
velous, being nearl}^ double that of 
any other City in the Union. The aver- 
age number of domestic letters re- 
ceived and distributed daily is 300,000; 
the number of foreign letters received 
is 30,000, the number dispatched 
35,000, and the number of local letters 
received and distributed, 120,000. There 
are 5,795 lock-boxes for letters, and 372 
lock-boxes for newspapers. At the 
Post Office and stations there are about 
1,300 employees, and 390 carriers are 
employed. In the Post Office proper 
there about 600 clerks. Experience has 
shown that Mondays and Thursdays 
are generally the heaviest days. To 
properly manage a business so vast and 
so complex as that transacted in the 
New York Post Office requires the 
highest order of executive ability, com- 
bined with a quick perception of needed 
details to systematize the work so as to 
make one harmonious machine. 

Post Office Stations. 

Station A, 595 Broadway. 
" B, 380 Grand street. 

C, 583 Hudson street. 

D, 4 Cooper Union. 

E, 465 Eighth avenue. 
" F, 550 Third avenue. 
" G, 935 Eighth avenue. 
" H, 1009 Third avenue. 

" K, cor, 86lh st. and Third av. 
*' L, 2248 Third avenue. 
"" M. Carmansville. 



Stations North of Harlem River. 

1. Morrisania. 5. Kingsbridge. 

2. Tremont. 6. Spuyten Duyvil. 

3. Fordham. 7. West Farms. 

4. Woodlawn. 8. Riverdale. 

The following is the staff of officials 
connected with the New York Post 
Office: 

Thomas L. James, Postmaster. 

Henry G. Pearson, Assistant Post- 
master. 

J. Aug. Hinchman, Chief CUrk. 

1st Division — Auditor's Office, John J. 
Foote, Auditor-in-charge. 

2d Dimsian — Cashier's Office, Harvey 
Major, Cashier-in-charge. 

3d Division — Mailing and Discharg- 
ing Department, Anthony Yeoman, 
General Superintendent-in-charge. 

4th Division — City Delivery, James 
Gayler, Superintendent-in-charge. 

5th Division — Moiuy Order 
"William Plimley, General Sup't, 



MONUMENTS. 

There are Tombs and splendid Mon- 
uments erected in the different Ceme- 
teries in the City to the memory of the 
illustrious dead. Among the most con- 
spicuous are the following: 

The oldest monument of note in the 
City is that erected to the memory of 
Peter Stuyvesant. It is situated on 
the east side of St. Mark's Church, cor- 
ner of Stuyvesant and Second avenue, 
and bears an appropriate inscription. 
(See page 34.) 

The Tombs of many other eminent 
men are located in this ancient burial 
place, which contains the remains of 
Dutch, English, and American heroes. 



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NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



Alexander Hamilton. 

In the Cemetery surrounding Trinity 
Church, on Broadway, there is a monu- 
ment erected to the memory of Alex- 
ander Hamilton; within the church 
there is also a bust and a tablet. He 
met his death in a duel July 12, 1804, 
aged 47 years. (See page 35.) 
Lawrence and Ludlow. 
The monument to the memory of the 
gallant Lawrence and Ludlow stands 
in Trinity churchyard, near Broad- 
way, The design is by the architect 
Upjohn, the sculpture by Fraser. It 
is built of the same material as the 
church, and bears the following inscrip- 
tion : 

In memory of 

Captain James Lawrence, 

of the United States Navy, 

Who fell on the 1st of June, 1813, in 

the S2d year of his age, 

In the action between the Frigates Chesapeake 

and Shannon. 

On the southern side of the monu- 
ment is an inscription as follows : 

In memory of Lieut. Augustus G. Ludlow, 
of the United States Navy; died at Halifax, 

1813. 
Monument to Major Gen. Montgom- 
ery, 
In front of St. Paul's Church, Broadway. 
This Monument is erected 
by order of Congress, 25th Jan., 1776 
to transmit to posterity a grateful re- 
membrance 
of the patriotism, conduct, enterprise and 

perseverance of 

Major-General Richard Montgomery* 

Who, after a series of successes amidst the 

most discouraging difficulties. 

Fell in an attack on Quebec, Dec. 31, 1775 

aged 37 years. ' 

Emmet's Monument. 

The monument erected to the mem- 
ory of Emmet, stands in St. Paul's 



churchyard, near Broadway. It is a 
granite shaft with an appropriate in- 
scription : 

Born in Cork, 24th April, 1764. 
He died in New York, 14th Nov., 1827. 

Other Monuments to the illustrious 
dead are to be seen in both of the aboye 
churchyards. 

Washington Monument. 

The equestrian bronze statue of the 
Father of his Country, situated on 
south-east side of Union Square, is one 
of the finest in the City. The com- 
manding figure and pedestal are 29 feet 
in height. 

The monument erected to the mem- 
ory of President Lincoln stands on 
the opposite side of Union Square, near 
Fourteenth street. It w^as erected in 
1870. The pedestal is formed of three 
granite slabs w-hich weigh over 40 
tons. The statue is of bronze, eleven 
feet high, and weighs 3,000 lbs. 

Worth Monument, 

Stands on the west side of Madison 
Square, on Fifth Avenue : it is a gran- 
ite obelisk, and presents in relief the 
equestrian image of the noble general 
who signalized himself in the w^ar with 
Mexico, 

The Franklin Monument, on Print- 
ing House Square, opposite Cit}^ Hall 
Park, is a recent and appropriate statue 
erected in honor of the philosopher and 
statesman of Revolutionary memory. 

In addition to the above, a number 
of costly and appropriate monuments 
are to be found in the Central Park. 




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PUBLIC PARKS. 

There are numerous Public Parks and 
Squares in different parts of the City, 
the most prominent of which is the 
Central Park, containing 843 acres, 
situated near the centre of the Island. 
This is, unquestionably, one of the 
most beautiful parks of its age and kind 
in the world. Besides the Parks and 
Squares in the lower part of the City, 
there are two or three large Parks pro- 
vided for on the banks of the Hudson 
River, yet in an unfinished state, but 
w^hich, eventually, will be completed, 
and add largely to the beauties of the 
Metropolis. A full description of the 
Parks is elsewhere given. 

The Boulevards on the Island and 
North of Harlem River, within the City 
limits, afford great attraction to the 
pedestrian as well as the lovers of fine 
drives on good graveled roads. 

The Cemeteries, or Burial places, 
are now mostly located outside the 
City limits. Trinity Cemetery, on 
Washington Heights, comprises 36 
acres. Woodlawn Cenutery is situated 
six miles North of Harlem Bridge, in 
the 24th Ward of the City. 



COLLEGES, CHURCHES, 8oc. 

Columbia College, (formerly 
King's), established in 1754, has a pres- 
ident and eight other professors, about 
170 students, a library of 25,000 volumes, 
and an estate valued at upwards of 
$2,000,000. The University of the City 
of New York, chartered in 1831, and 
opened the folio-wing year, situated op- 
posite Washington Square, is a fine 



marble structure, in the English col- 
legiate style, 180 feet in length, by 100 
feet in width. The front is divided 
into five parts, the chapel being in the- 
centre, with wings, and flanked by 
towers on either side. The New York 
College stands on the corner of Lexing- 
ton Avenue and Twenty-third Street. 

Among the ecclesiastical edifices of 
New York are Trinity Church, situate 
in Broadwaj^, opposite Wall Street. It 
is a Gothic structure, of solid brown- 
stone from foundation to spire, with 
the exception of the roof, which is of 
wood; the height of the steeple is 282^ 
feet, and its general architectural beau- 
ty makes it, on the whole, very impos- 
ing; the Roman Catholic Cathedral of 
St. Patrick, now in course of construc- 
tion on Fifth Avenue, between 51st and 
52d Streets, in the Decorated style, after 
the model of the celebrated cathedral at 
Cologne, and w^hen completed it will be 
by far the most magnificent ecclesiastic 
building in the United States. 

The City contains 470 churches, at- 
tached to various denominations, viz :. 
Baptist, 43; Congregational, 8; Lu- 
theran, 20; Methodist Episcopal, 56; 
African Methodist Episcopal, 6; Wes,- 
leyan Methodist, 1; Methodist Protes- 
tant, 1; Free Methodist, 1; Moravian, 
2; Presbyterian, 62; United Presby- 
terian, 10; Reformed Presbyterian, 6; 
Protestant Episcopal, 80; Reformed, 
25; Roman Catholic, 43; Unitarian, 5;, 
Universalist, 7; Miscellaneous, 34; be- 
sides, 5 Friends' meeting houses, 29 
Jews' synagogues, 34 city missions, 3 
other missions, and 9 seamen's churches.. 



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NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



The Bible House, corner Fourth 
avenue and Astor Place; the Association 
Hall, and National Academy of Design, 
standing opposite, on Fourth Avenue, 
corner 23d Street, are all noble struc- 
tures. The new Masonic Hall, at the 
corner of Sixth Avenue and 23d Street, 
finished and dedicated in June, 1875, is 
one of the most costly and magnificent 
structures in the City, The new Stock 
Exchange on Broad Street, with an en- 
trance on Wall Street, is a fine building. 
In the vicinity is situated the Gold Ex- 
■change, this being the money centre of 
America. 

The Theatres and Halls of Amuse- 
ment are numerous, numbering about 
30 Theatres, &c., which are usually nu- 
merously attended. The Academy of 
Music, the Grand Opera House, Booth's 
Theatre, Fifth Avenue Theatre, Wal- 
lack's Theatre and others, are favorites. 

The Hotels are also numerous, many 
being constructed for the accommoda- 
tion of guests regardless of cost. The As- 
tor House, St. Nicholas Hotel, Metropol- 
itan Hotel, Fifth Avenue Hotel, Grand 
Hotel, Grand Central, Brevoort House, 
Windsor Hotel, and others, are large 
and noble edifices. On the line of 
Broadway and Fifth Avenue, there are 
upwards of thirty of these stately and 
capacious buildings. In other parts of 
the City, of easy access to omnibus and 
street car lines, they no less abound, 
altogether numbering about one hun- 
dred good hotels, kept on the American 
and European plans. 

The Restaurants, or Eating- 
HousES, are still more numerous, beins: 



found in fashionable parts of the City, 
uptown, and convenient to business 
men in the lower part of the City. 



Croton Aqueduct and Water- Works. 

New York formerly labored under a 
great deficiency of water; but latterly 
this deficiency has been fully supplied 
by means of the Croton Aqueduct, a 
work worthy of being ranked with the 
noblest of the old Roman aqueducts. 
It commences about 45 miles from the 
City at the Croton River, the waters of 
which are collected by an immense dam. 
The aqueduct proceeding thence is 
arched over and under, being 6 feet 3 
inches wide at bottom, 7 feet 8 inches 
at top, and 8 feet 5 inches in height. It 
has a descent of 1,33 inches per mile, 
and discharges 60,000,000 gallons in 24 
hours. It crosses the Harlem River 
over the famous High Bridge, a struc- 
ture of granite, 1,450 feet in length, with 
14 arches, each of 80 feet span, 110 feet 
above tide-water. The receiving reser- 
voir has a water surface of 31 acres, and 
contains 150,000,000 gallons; the dis- 
tributing reservoir, covering 4 acres, 
has a depth of 40 feet, and holds 21,000,- 
000 gallons. Thence the water is dis- 
tributed over the City by means of iron 
pipes, from 6 to 36 inches in diameter, 
extending, in 1870, to the length of 320 
miles, 5,237 feet. The entire cost has 
been $12,376,000. The water was par- 
tially introduced into the City in July, 
1842, but the works were not complet- 
ed till 1845. This ample supply of pure 
water has made a great sanitary im- 
provement in the City; for, as regards 



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61 



cleanliness and salubrity, there was 
great room for change. 

The City is traversed throughout by 
numerous Street Railroads, while scores 
of Ferry-steamers maintain communica- 
tion with Brooklyn, Jersey City, Staten 
Island, and all the outlying suburban 
places of importance on the East and 
Hudson Rivers. A monster Suspension 
Bridge over the East River, intended to 
connect the cities of New York and 
Brooklyn, was begun in 1870, and is still 
unfinished; the towers on either side 
presenting a gigantic appearance. 
Schools, Academies, &c. 

New York possesses an excellent sys- 
tem of free schools, and every facility 
is afforded by large and commodious 
school-houses, free books and materials, 
and competent teachers, for the educa- 
tion of all children within its bounda- 
ries. These schools are managed by a 
Board of Education. The City is divid- 
ed into eight educational districts, over 
which 3 inspectors are appointed. Be- 
sides these, there are 5 school trustees 
ever each of the 24 wards of the City. 
There are 58 grammar schools, and 40 
primary schools — besides 6 colored 
grammar schools. The industrial schools 
number seventeen. There are 12 cor- 
porate schools which participate in the 
school-fund, and 9 colleges. There are, 
besides, 38 Roman Catholic free schools. 
The same denomination have, of high 
schools, St. Xavier's College, under the 
Jesuits ; St. Vincent's Academy, and 
the Academy of the Holy Infancy ; 
Brothers' Christian Schools, and con- 
vents and academies of the Sacred 



Heart. The City has also an Episcopal 
Seminary, and various other sectarian 
high schools; three medical colleges, 
historical, law, agricultural, horticultu- 
ral, topographical, musical, and numer- 
ous other learned societies, with ex- 
tensive reading rooms. 

Hospitals, Asylums, &c. 
The New York Hospital and that of 
Bellevue, are the principal of the numer- 
ous institutions for medical relief. There 
are admirable establishments for the 
blind and the deaf and dumb; a society 
for the reformation of juvenile offend- 
ers ; a farm termed "Long Island 
Farms" for the provision of destitute 
children, and a great variety of other 
useful public institutions ;— but our 
space does not permit us to pass in de- 
tail the multitudinous institutions, ob- 
jects, and places of interest and impor- 
tance diffused over this great city. — 
The New York Hospital, the oldest in- 
stitution of the kind in the State, was 
chartered by George III. , in 1771. The 
Asylum for the Insane, at Blooming- 
dale, is a branch of the hospital. It has 
about forty acres of ground, and a fine 
botanical garden. The New York Wo- 
man's Hospital, for the exclusive treat- 
ment of diseases of women, is the only 
one of the kind in the country. Among 
the numerous other charitable institu- 
tions are the Association for the Relief 
of the Poor (which has an organization 
thoroughly supervising the City, and re- 
lieves all deserving poor not otherwise 
provided for), the New York Orphan 
Asylum (on the banks of the Hudson, 
at Bloomingdale), the Leake and Watts' 



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NEW YOEK AS IT IS. 



Orphan House (in N. 112th Street,) the 
:New Foundling Hospital, &c. There 
:are also many private benevolent socie- 
ties, besides Masonic, Odd Fellows, 
Druids, United Americans, Sons of 
Hermann, German Verein, Hebrew Be- 
nevolent, Sons of Temperance, and nu- 
merous other societies and associations. 

The Cooper Institute, for moral, in- 
tellectual and physical culture, is a 
fine edifice of six stories, on Third 
and Fourth avenues. It contains a large 
lecture-room, a valuable library, and 
numerous other rooms with philosophi- 
cal apparatus, study, free reading- 
room, &c. 

Prominent among the Public Libra- 
ries are the Astor Library, now having 
upwards of 160,000 volumes ; the 
Mercantile Library, in Astor Place, 
which is a leading library, with about 
150,000 volumes, and the New York 
Society Library. The Lenox Library 
is a new institution, which is elsewhere 
described ; also, the other Libraries. 

By recent Acts of the Legislature the 
City is governed by a Mayor and Com- 
mon Council, consisting of twenty-two 
aldermen, elected by apportionment, 
from the five senatorial Districts, and the 
23d and 24th wards, annually. These to- 
gether form the Common Council. 



City Government, Courts, Police, etc. 
The Mayor, formerly appointed by 
the Governor and Senate of the State, 
is now elected by the popular vote every 
two years. The Council exercises the 
legislative power in the City, subject to 
the approbation of the ikayor; but in 



case of the latter vetoing any ordinance, 
it may be passed by a majority of the 
whole number of the members present. 
In addition to that of the City there is 
a County Government, vested in a board 
of 12 Supervisors and 22 Aldermen, 
who have partial control of taxation, 
civil and criminal courts, and county 
offices. New York is politically divided 
into 7 congressional, 5 State senatorial, 
21 assembly, 8 judicial, 24 school or 
ward, and 217 election districts. The 
City forms the 1st judicial district and 
the 1st military division of the State. 
The judicial tribunals are: the Supreme 
Court, of 5 judges, the Superior Court, of 
6 judges, the Marine Court, of 6 judges, 
10 district civil courts, courts of oyer 
and terminer (held by a judge of the 
Supreme Court), the general sessions 
and special sessions and 6 police courts. 
The Circuit and District Courts of the 
the United States are held in the new 
Post Office Building; also, all the oflBces 
connected therewith — District Attor- 
ney's Office, Marshal's Office, &c. 

The paid Fire Department, managed 
by a board of 3 commissioners, is com- 
posed of 38 steam-engine companies, 
and 15 hook-and-ladder companies. 
The Police Department is under the 
absolute control of a board of 4 com- 
missioners; and there is besides a su- 
perintendent and four inspectors for 
the whole district, which includes New 
York, Richmond, and Westchester 
counties. The force in New York 
consists of 34 captains, 132 sergeants, 
70 roundsmen, 1,921 patrolmen, and 72 
doormen — total 2,159. 



SALARY OF CITY OFFICERS — MARKETS. 



63 



City Debt, 

January 1, 1876 

Funded Debt, payable from tax- 
ation and Sinking Fund $119,056,903.54 

Temporary Debt, payable wholly 

or in part from assessment" . . 21,322,200.00 

Revenue Bonds, Special , for 

Fourth av. improvement etc., 460,927.85 

Revenue Bonds 3,682,000.00 



Total Debt $144,522,131.39 

Deduct Sinking Fund 27,748,307.30 



Balance. . 116,773,824.09 

Amount to be raised by tax for 
expenses of City Government 
in 1876 30,904,395.64 

Rate, 2.00 per cent, on valuation. 

Assessed value of real and per- 
sonal property, 1875 1,100,943,699 00 



Annual Salary of City Officers, as 
fixed by Law. 

To the Mayor $12,000 

Comptroller 10,000 

Commissioner of Public Works 10,000 

Corporation Counsel 15,000 

President of the Board of Police 8,000 

Commissioners of Police 6, 000 

President of the Dept. of Parks. 6,000 

President of the Fire Dept 7,000 

Fire Commissioners _ 5,000 

President of the Dept. of Chari- 
ties and Correction _ 6, 500 

Commissioners of Charities, &c. 5,000 
President of the Health Dept.. 6,500 

Commissioner of H ealth 5,000 

President of the Board of Alder- 
men 5,000 

Members of the Board of Alder- 
men 4,000 

President of the Dept. of Taxes 

and Assessments __ 6,500 

Commissioners of Taxes and 
Assessments... 5,000 



President of the Dept. of Docks 6,000 

Commissioners of Docks 3,000 

Superintendent of Buildings. .- 6,000 
Justices of the District Courts. - 8,000 

No subordinate in any department 
shall receive a greater salary than the 
highest salary paid to the head of the 
department, except the Superintendent 
of Police, whose salary shall not exceed 
ten thousand dollars. 

Markets. 

The New York Markets, 13 in num- 
ber, are most of them well provisioned 
with abundance of meats, poultry, fish, 
and vegetables. The principal Markets 
are Fulton Market, built in 1821, at a 
cost of upwards of $200,000— located 
on a block bounded by Fulton, Beek- 
man. Front and South streets — and 
Washington Market, situated on the 
western side of the city, facing the 
North River, between Fulton and Vesey 
streets ; this market receives the pro- 
duce mostly from the North and West, 
while Fulton Market is mostly supplied 
from Long Island and the East. The 
other principal Markets are Catharine, 
Clinton, Chelsea, Centre, Essex, Jeffer- 
son and Tompkins Market. 

Moneyed Institutions, — There are 
now in the City of New York (1876), 
75 National and State- Banks ; 38 Sav- 
ings Banks ; 86 State Fire Insurance 
Companies, beside numerous Agencies ; 
10 Marine Insurance Companies, 20 
State Life Insurance Companies besides 
Agencies; 4 Safe Deposit Companies, a 
Stock Exchange Company, a Gold Ex- 
change Company, and a Bank Clearing 



* Has control of all structures and property connected with the supply and distribution of 
Croton water, of opening streets, «&c. 



64: 



NEW YOEK AS IT IS. 



House. In addittion to the above there 
are about three hundred Bankers, be- 
sides numerous Brokers who transact an 
immense amount of business, both 
deahng in Money, Stock, etc. The 
total capital thus invested in Banks, 
etc., must amount to several hundred 
millions of dollars— making the total 
cash capital and assets to represent, at 
least, $1,000,000,000. 

Manufacturers, Commerce, etc. 

The manufactures are numerous and 
very diversified, producing annually an 
immense amount of manufactured fab- 
rics of various kinds. Ship-building 
also is conducted on a vast scale. But 
New York is pre-eminently a vast com- 
mercial city, second only to London in 
some respects. The rise in the tide in 
the Hudson is felt at Troy, 150 miles 
above New York, and large vessels as- 
cend to Albany, affording the greatest 
facilties for the transportation of pro- 
duce from and to the interior by means 
of canals and railroads. 

Floating Population. — The City of 
New York stands unrivalled as a great 
commercial mart or entrepot. Five 
thousand vessels arrive here annually 
from foreign and domestic ports; 300 
large steamships being included in the 
number making monthly trips to and 
from European and other foreign ports. 
Five-sevenths of all the emigrants and 
strangers entering this country land at 
New York; hence its population con- 
sists of people from all nations of the 
globe. The transient population is im- 
mense. There are on an average 16,000 
emigrants per month, or about 200,000 



landing at Castle Garden yearly. There 
are probably always stopping in the 
city, 6,000 emigrants; 6,000 seamen and 
boatmen ; strangers at hotels and board- 
ing houses, 20,000; making altogether 
upwards of 30,000. But the daily arri- 
vals by means of steam ferryboats and • 
railroad cars exceed all calculation. 
From Brooklyn alone 125,000 persons 
cross at the several ferries daily; as 
many more, no doubt, arrive from 
Staten Island, Jersey City, Hoboken, 
and the Hudson River steamers, making 
in all 250,000 to be added to the 1,000,- 
000 permanent residents. 

According to the Official Censues of 
1870, the nationalities of the population 
of New York stood as follows: Born 
in the United States, 523,198; born in 
foreign countries and representing forty 
different natiomdities, 419,094. 

Avenues and Streets. 

The Avenues and Streets of the City 
of New York, during the past thirty 
years, have undergone many alterations 
and extensions. Looking at the map, 
the streets in the First, Second, Third, 
Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Wards show 
considerable irregularity exists, but 
above Canal street, they, for the most 
part, run at right angles to each other. 
The avenues known as A, B, C and D, 
and then numbering from I. to XII., 
extending across the Island, from east 
to west; they run north and south, from 
above Houston street to the Harlem 
River. The cross streets, numbering 
from 1 to 150, and upwards, usually 
run from the East to the North River, . 



AVENUES AND STREETS. 



65 



being designated as East and West 
after passing Fifth Avenue. This ar- 
rangement is broken into by Central 
Park, which extends from the Fifth 
to the Eighth avenue, and from West 
59th to West 110th street. Broadway, 
or Bloomingdale road, however, with 
Kingsbridge road, extends the whole 
length of the Island, from the Battery 
to Harlem River, or Spuyten Duyvil 
Creek, a distance of thirteen miles. 

Besides Broadway, the great thor- 
oughfare of New York, may be named 
other streets and avenues prominent for 
width, length, or for business pursuits. 
Wall street, Broad street, Kassau street, 
Chatham street, the Bowery, Canal street 
Hudson and Greenwich streets are all in 
the lower part of the city ; also Pearl 
street, one mile and three-eighths in 
in length, it commences at State street, 
a short distance from Broadway, and 
runs in a circuitous course through 
Hanover Square and Franklin Square 
to Chatham street, then runs west to 
Broadway, nearly a mile from the Bat- 
tery. Fulton street and Maiden Lane 
are both important business streets. 

The principal Avenues, including 
Second avenue. Third avenue, Fourth 
avenue. Sixth avenue. Seventh avenue 
and Eighth avenue, are all important 
thoroughfares and business streets ; but 
the Fifth avenue is the great pride of 
the City. Here may be seen rows of 
stately private residences, churches, ho- 
tels and places of amusement, while the 
avenue is reserved as a magnificent drive 
from Washington Square to Central 
Park, a distance of three or four miles. 



Fourteenth street and Twenty-third 
streets are also wide and elegant 
streets. 

The southern portion of the city, be- 
low Broome street, is almost entirely 
devoted to business purposes, the stores 
and storehouses being for the most 
part constructed of brick, iron and 
stone in the most substantial manner, 
many of them being rendered fire- 
proof. 

The northern portion of the Island, 
much of which is not yet thickly set- 
tled, was early laid out in a regular 
manner, under the superintendence of 
Governor Morris, DeWitt Clinton and 
John Rutherford, Commissioners ap- 
pointed for the purpose by the Legisla- 
ture of the State of New York, in 1807. 
The survey of John Randall, jr., was 
commenced in 1811, and occupied ten 
years. The avenues before alluded to 
were laid out in this survey, running 
nearly north and south, and had to be 
cut through the opposing rocks and 
hills at great expense. They are inter- 
sected by 156 cross streets, numerically 
designated, which, with the Avenues, 
form oblong rectangles, most of them 
200 by 800 feet. 

The City has suffered at times during 
the present century from destructive 
fires, of which the greatest occurred in 
1835 and 1845. The former destroyed 
about five hundred stores and ware- 
houses, with sundry public buildings ; 
total loss estimated at $17,000,000. 
These conflagrations have, however, 
led, as have similar visitations else- 
where, to the improvement of the city. 



eQ 



NEW YOKK AS IT IS. 



Railroads. 

Many of the Avenues and Streets are 
now used by City Railroads, running 
in almost every direction — a complete 
list will be given in another part of this 
volume. The Harlem Railroad, six miles 
in length, was finished to Yorkville in 
1834, and soon afterwards completed to 
Harlem, eight miles. The first City 
Railroad was built in 1852. 

The New York and Harlem Railroad, 
Hudson River Railroad, and the New 
York and New Haven Railroad, all ter- 
minate at the Grand Central Railroad 
Depot on East 42d street, corner of 
Fourth avenue. The Erie Railroad 
terminates on the New Jersey shore, 
opposite Chambers street. 

A peculiar feature of New York and 
its thoroughfares are the dense crowd 
of pedestrians that passes down and up 
Broadway, and other leading streets, 
morning and evening ; also, the nu- 
merous vehicles drawn by horses that 
throng the business portion of the City 
from morning till night, often rendering 
the crossing of the streets a feat of great 
danger, especially during inclement 
weather, when the streets are liable to 
be in a wretched condition from the ac- 
cumulation of mud and ice. The nu- 
merous street railroad cars and tracks 
are also obstructions to the promenad- 
ing of the great thoroughfares of the 



City. The great throng crossing the 
principal steam ferries to Brooklyn and 
Jersey City likewise shows the influx 
of persons living in the suburbs of the 
metropolis — amounting to several hun- 
dred thousand daily of foot passengers. 
Life in New Yo7'k. — The various na- 
tionalities that constitute the great mass 
of the inhabitants of the City of New 
York, show many distinctive features, 
more or less blended. The educated 
English, Scotch, Irish, French and Ger- 
man blend with the New Yorker, and 
the inhabitants from other States of the 
Union, here resident, and form, alto- 
gether, a cosmopolitan society. Yet 
still, the native New Yorker, with the 
better portion of the New Englanders, 
form the elite of its inhabitants. This 
portion of society, often possessing tal- 
ent and great wealth, fostering science 
and the arts, together with every laud- 
able undertaking, are the just pride of 
the nation — showing their liberality for 
the good of the human race. Here in 
New York, looking at the bright side, 
are to be found honest worth, enterprise, 
talent and liberality combined, that 
goes far to redeem the City from all that 
is objectionable; while, on the other 
hand, the corrupt politician, and the 
ignorant masses that follow in their 
wake, form a class of society at war 
with the best interests of the City and 
the nation at large. 



CENSUS OF THE CITY OF NEW TORK. 



67 



Census of the City of New York from 1790 to 1875. 



The recently taken (State) Census of 
l^ew York City shows a total popu- 
lation of the 24 Wards of 1,064,273, 
heing an increase since 1870 of 121,980, 
or 2.6 per cent, a year. This increase 
results partly, however, from the annex- 
ation of two Wards since 1870, with a 
population of 36,466. The increase is 
not nearly so large as expected, nor as 
the growth between_1865 and 1870, 
according to the' censuses of those 
years. This is partially owing to the 
decrease of immigration, but more 
largely to the fact that the City of New 
York proper is already crowded, and 
that its surplus population is overflow- 
ing into the suburbs. Henceforth the 
population of Manhattan Island will 
grow with comparatively small speed, 
while its suburbs in Long Island, along 
the Hudson River, and in Connecticut 
and New Jersey, will grow with great 
rapidity. In this connection, the table 
below, showing the population of the 
City according to different censuses 
since 1790, will be of interest. 

It is curious to note the sensitiveness 
of our population to business condi- 
tions, as indicated in this table. The 
£rst check which came to the growth 
of the City was caused by the war of 
1812-15. The next arose from the gen- 
eral stagnation from 1825 to 1830. The 
growth from 1830 to 1835 was beyond 
that of any previous period of five 
years, and was followed by as sudden a 



I depression, consequent on the revulsion 
in 1837 from the excessive speculation 
of the previous years, as well as the de- 
struction of a considerable part of the 
City by fire. The impulse given by the 
discovery of gold in California is shown 
by the gain from 1845 to 1850. The civil 
war is sufficient to account for the ap- 
parent diminution in 1865, and the re- 
vulsion of 1873 for the somewhat un- 
satisfactory figures for the present year. 

Per cent, 
of in- 
Increase. crease. 



Popula- 
tion. 
33,131 



96,753 
95,519 
123,705 



Years. 

1790 

1800 

1810 

1815* 

1820 

1825* 168,086 

1830 197,112 

1835* 268,089 

1840 312,710 

1845* 371,223 

1850 515,M7 

1855* 629,810 

1860 813,509 

1865* 726,386 

1»70 942,292 

1875* 1,046,037 



27,358 

35,264 

—1,234 

28,187 

42,380 

31,026 

70,977 

54,621 

59,513 

141,234 

114,264 

183,789 

—87,313 

215,907 

121,980 



58 
loss. 



* State Census. 



Taxation.— The rate of taxation in 
the City of New York is about $3 per 
$100, while the figures for Brooklyn 
vary from $3. 15 to $3.50 per $100 in the 
different wards. The two main sources 
of the burdens of both cities are the 
prosecution of premature public "im- 
provements " on the most extravagant 
scale, and the vast proportions which 
their bonded debt has been allowed to 
assume. This burden of itself tends to 
retard the increase of population. 



QS 



NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



RAILROADS DIVERGING FROM THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 



Name. 



Hudson River Railroad 

(Conn'tg with N. Y. Central) 
New York and Harlem R.R.. 

Harlem Extension 

New York and New Haven. . . 

New York, Boston&Montr^al. 

([[^^ Starting from the Grand 

Central Railroad Depot. 
Flushing, North Shore & Cen 

TRAL R.R 

Great Neck Branch 

Whitestone Branch 

Long Island Railroad 

Flushing Branch 

Hempstead & Glen Cove Br. 

Port Jefferson Branch. 

Sag Harbor Branch 

B'klyn Cent'l& Jamaica R.R 
Southern (Long Island) 

Rockaway Branch 

Brooklyn & Coney Is. R.R... 

Bat Ridge Railroad 

Staten Island Railroad 

Caaiden and Amboy, via Steamer 

to South Amboy, N. J 

Erie Railway 

Buffalo Division 

Niagara Falls Branch 

New York to Niagara Falls, 

448 miles 
Delaware, Lac. and Western. 

Morris and Essex R. R 

Central New Jersey R. R 

N. Y. and Long Branch Div. 

Bound Brook and Delaware 

River R.R.* 

New York & Newark R.R 

Pe]*nsylvania Central R R 

Phil., Wil. & Baltimore R.R. 

Baltimore & Potomac R.R. 
Total miles, 228. 
New Jersey Southern R.R... 

Northern Jersey R. R 

New Jersey Midland ] ] 

New York & Oswego Midland! 



From. 



New York. 



New York 

Chatham, N.Y.. 
New York... 
New York. 



Hunter's Pt.,L.I 
Flushing, L.I... 
Flushing, L.I... 

New York 

Hunter's Pt., L.I 
Hempstead, L.I. 
Hicksville, L.L. 

Manor, L.I 

East New York _ 

New York 

Valley Stream.. 

Brooklyn 

Bay Ridge, L.I. 
New York 



To. 



Albany. 



New York 

New York 

Hornellsville _ . . 
Buffalo, N.Y... 



New York... 

New York 

New York... 
Elizabethport. 



Bound Brook. . 

New York 

New York 

Philadelphia . . 
Baltimore, Md. 

Sandy Hook. . . 

New York 

New York 

New York 



Chatham, N.Y. 

Rutland, Vt 

New Haven, Ct 



Babylon, L.I..- 

Great Neck 

Whitestone, L.I 

Greenpoint 

Flushing, L.I. .. 
Locust Valle}'-. 
Port Jefferson . . 

Sag Harbor 

Jamaica 

Patchogue 

Rockaway 

Coney Island. . . 

Perth Amboy.. 

Philadelphia 

Dunkirk 

Buffalo 

Susp. Bridge 



Binghampton . . 

Easton, Pa 

Easton, Pa 

Sea Girt 



Miles. 



P>,?io/i'^w^ Railroad, when complete, will form a through 
Philadelphia, via the North Pennsylvania Railroad; distance, 



Yardleville, Pa. - 

Newark, N.J 

Philadelphia 

Baltimore 

Washington, D.C 

Bay Side, N.J... 
Nyack, N.Y.... 
Middletown,N.Y 

Oswego, N.Y 



144 

128 

108 

76 



39 
6 
4 

95 
8. 

17 

35 
6^ 

54 
6- 

T 

20 

92 

460 

91 

25. 



210 

85 
75 
45. 



9 

9a 

98 
40 

117 
30 

88 
240 



line and track from New York ta 
88 miles. 



SUMMAKT. 



69 



sxj]M]vj:^ry. 

Suggestive Figures Copied from the Annual Eeport of the New 
York City Mission for 1875. 



Population,— The population of the 
City of New York, according to the 
:N'inth United States Census of 1870, 
-w^as 942,292. According to the State 
Census of 1875, 1,046,037. 

Dwellings. — The number of dwell- 
ing-houses in the City, in 1870, was 
64,044. 

Families. — The number of families 
living in the City was 185,789. 

Tenement Houses. — Houses con- 
taining three or more families, are 
classed as tenement houses. It is sup- 
posed that there are 20,000 tenement 
houses, and tliat they contain a popu- 
lation of 500,000 persons. 

Makriages. — The number of per- 
sons united in marriage, in the City, 
•during the year, is estimated at 20,000. 

Births. — The number of births in 
the city, during the year, is estimated 
at 35,000. 

Deaths. — The number of deaths in 
the city, during the year 1874, was 28,- 
420, or about 28 to the 1,000. 

Property. — The total valuation of 
property in the City was $1,154,029,176. 

City Taxes.— The City taxes are 
$32,000,000 a year, and upwards. 

Public Amusements. — The money 
spent in theatres, operas, and other 
;public amusements, is estimated at 
.^7,000,000 a vear. 



Public Education. — For the pub- 
lic schools, $4,000,000 a year is re- 
quired. 

Police. — For the support of the 
police, $4,000,000 a year is required. 

Immigrants. — Seventeen thousand 
immigrants per month, or upwards of 
200,000 per year, land at Castle Garden. 
Last year (1874), the number was 
$267,901. 

Churches and Accommodations. — 

There are 470 churches, chapels, and 
missions of all kinds, with accommoda- 
tions for 350,000 persons. 

Protestant Churches and Accom- 
modations.— There are 380 Protestant 
places of worship, with accommoda- 
tions for 250,000 persons. 

Protestant Churches and Com- 
municants.— There are 240 regularly 
incorporated Protestant churches, with 
an average membership of 300, which 
would give a total of 72,000 communi- 
cants. 

Sabbath-schools and Attend- 
ance.— There are 410 Sabbath-schools 
of all denominations, with an attend- 
ance of 115,826 pupils. 

Protestant Sabbath-schools. — 
There are 256 Protestant Sabbath- 
schools, with an attendance of 88,237 
pupils. 

Young Men and Young Women. — 



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NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



The number of males between the ages 
of 15 and 30 years, is 122,081. The 
number of females between the ages of 
15 and 30 years, is 150,467. Probably 
30,000 of the latter are servants. 

Children between Yivb and Fif- 
teen.— The number of children in the 
City between the ages of five and fifteen, 
is 197,363. The number five to eight- 
een years of age, is 250,353, 

Public Instruction. — In the schools 
under the Board of Education there is 
an average attendance of 107,934. 

Private Schools, etc. — In paro- 
chial schools, industrial schools, private 
schools, colleges, etc., there must be 
35,000 more. 

Whole Number at School.— In the 
public schools and private schools, etc. , 
there are probably 142,934 regularly in 
attendance. The number of pupils 
who attend these schools for a longer 
or shorter period is over 200,000. 

Street Children,— Children grow- 
ing up without any instruction. This 
number, variously estimated, may be 
set down at about 10,000. 

Drinking Places. — Official state- 
ments place the number of licensed and 
unlicensed drinking saloons at 8,403. 
The money spent in these drinking 
places for liquor is variously estimated, 
but may be set down at $50,000,000 a 
year. 

Arrests. — Total number of arrests 
by the Police Department for the year 
1874, 90,030, of which 71,260 were for 
intoxication and disorderly conduct. 

Crimes of Violence. — Arrests for 
crimes of violence in 1874, 7,860. 



Commitments. — Commitments to the 
City Prison in 1874, 51,466, 

Intemperance. — Of the whole num- 
ber committed to the City prisons dur- 
ing the year, 41,514 were of intemper- 
ate habits. 

Lodgings. — Lodgings furnished at 
police stations in 1874, 185,124, 

Lost Children.— Lost children ta- 
ken care of by the police in 1874, 5,879. 

Out-Door Poor. — Out-door poor re- 
lieved in 1874, 22,782, 

Benevolent Societies. — There are- 
over 315 religious and charitable socie- 
ties. 

Of the more prominent societies, a» 
the American Bible Society, the Ameri- 
can Tract Society, etc., 40 reported last 
year an aggregate of $7,025,021.65, or, 
excluding proceeds of sales, nearly 
$6,000,000. 

The organized local charitable socie- 
ties and institutions receive and disburse 
annually $2,500,000. 

Public Charities, — To the alms- 
houses, prisons, hospitals, nurseries, 
schools, asylums, etc. , under the care of 
the Commissioners of Public Charities; 
and Correction, there were 153,271 com- 
mitments during the year 1874. It will 
be borne in mind that the returns from, 
these institutions do not indicate the; 
number of different individuals held. 
In many instances the same person has- 
been committed several times. If he 
were committed twenty times during- 
the year, there would be twenty com- 
mitments registered, and yet but one 
person. The constant population of 
these institutions is about 8,000. 



PART III. 



MUlSriCIPAL G;-OVERlSrMENT-1876. 

The Mayor of the City op Kew York holds 
office for two years. The term of the present in- 
cumbent commenced January 1, 1875, and expires 
January 1, 1877. He is invested by law with exten- 
sive powers, including the appointment and removal 
for cause of the heads of the various Departments 
of the Municipal Government. In cases of removal, 
however, the proceeding must obtain the approval 
of the Governor of the State. 

WILLIAM H. WICKHAM, Mayor, Office, No. 6 City Hall. 

Burton N. Harrison, Secretary. 

Chief Clerk — Thomas A Lathrop 

Marshals — John Tyler Kelly, Herman Schroeter. 

Permit Clerk — Daniel Hart, 6 City Hall. 

JOHN K. HACKETT, Reorder, 817 Broadway. 




BOARD OF ALDERMEN. 

A-t Large. 

John Reilly, 
Magnus Gross, 
Oliver T. C. Billings. 

Fourth Senate District. 

Bryan Reilly, 
Patrick Lysaght. 

Fifth Senate District. 

James J. GuArBLETON, 
William Wade. 

Sixth Senate District. 

Patrick Keenan, 
John W. Guntzer. 

Seventh Senate District. 

Henry E. Howland, Peter Seery, 

William Sauer. 

Eighth Senate District. 

^Michael Tuomey, Wm. H. McCarthy, 

Henry D. Purroy, Joseph Cudlipp. 

Samuel A. Lewis, President Board of Aldermen. 

Francis J. Twomey, Clerk, Office, No. 8 City Hall. 



Samuel A. Lewis, 
Jacob Hess, 
William L. Cole, 

Thomas Shiels. 



John J. Morris, 
Joseph C. Pinckney, 



Tlie Mayor, Recorder and Board of Aldermen are the Board of Supervisors. 



72 



NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



Executive . 
Legislative 
Finance .. 
Law 



o Police. 



Public Works... 

Public Charities 

and 

Corrections. 

Fire - 



9 Health. 



10 Public Parks. 



11 Docks. 



12 

13 
14 
15 



Taxes and As- 
sessments 

Buildings 

Excise 

Education . 



EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS. 

Heads of Dejtartnients. 

.William H. Wickham * Mayor. 

-Board of Aldermen and Supervisors 

. Andrew H. Green Comptroller. 

. William C. Whitney Counsel to the Corporation. 

William F. Smith 

John R. Voorhis 

De Witt C. Wheeler 

Joel B. Erhart 

-Allan Campbell 

Isaac H. Bailey 

Thomas S. Brennan 

TowNSEND Cox 

Joseph L. Perley 

RoswELL D. Hatch 

Vincent C. King 

Charles F. Chandler 

Dr. E. G. Janeway 

President Board of Police-. 

Henry G. Stebbins 

William R. Martin 

David B. Williamson 

Joseph J. O'Donohue 

Jacob A. Westervelt 

Henry F, Dimock 

Salem H. Wales 

John Wheeler 

George H. Andrews 

John K Haywood 

-Walter W. Adams 

James L. Stewart 

William H. Stiner 

D. D. T. Marshall 

-William Wood '.President. 

*For Salaries see page 63 



Commissioners. 



. Commissioner. 
Commissioners. 



Commissioners. 



Commissioners. 



Commissioners. 



Commissioners. 



Tax Commissioners. 
. Superintendent. 
Commissioners 



FINANCE DEPARTMENT. 

Office, County Court House. 
Comptroller's Office. 

Andrew H. Green, Comptrolkr. 

Abm. L. Earle, PeputT/ Comptroller, 

Richard A. Storrs, Assistant, 

F. W. Whittemore, Assistant, 

C W. Lawrence, Clerk to C(mij)troller, 

Eliot McCormick, Secretary to Comptroller, 

Wakeman H. Dikeman, Stock Clerk. 



MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT. 73 

Auditing Bureau. 

Dai^iel Jackson, Auditor of Accounts, 
R. Yelverton, Assistant Auditor. 

Bureau for the Collection of Taxes. 
M. T. McMahon, Becdver of Taxes, 
Alfred Vredenburgh, First Clerk 

Bureau for the Collection of City Revenue. 
R1CILS.RD F. Stevens, ColUctor of the City Bevenue. 

Bureau for the Collection of Assessments. 
Spencer Kirby, Collector of Assessments. 

Bureau of Arrears. 
A. S. Cady, Clerk of Arrears. 

Bureau of Markets. 
Thos. F. Devoe, Superintendent of Markets. 

City Chamberlain. 
J. Nelson Tappan. 



DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS. 

Office, City Hall. 

Allan Campbell, Commissioner. Henry A. Gumbleton, Deputy, 

Robert H. Clifford, Chief Clerk. 

Bureau of Repairs and Supplies. 

Thomas Keech, Superintendent. 

John Sloper, Keeper of City Hall and Park, 9 City Hall. 

Bureau of Streets. 
James J. Mooney, Superintendent. 

Bureau of Street Improvement. 
George A. Jeremiah, Superintendent. 
Bureau of Lamps and Gas. 
Thomas O'Callaghan, Superintendent. 
Bureau of Chief Engineer of Department of Public Works. 
John C. Campbell. Chief Engineer. 
Bureau of Water Rents. 
Office, City Hall. 
John H. Chambers, Registrar. 

Bureau of Water Purveyor. 
Daniel O'Reilly, Purveyor. 

Bureau of Sewers. 
Stevenson Towle, Survey or-in-Charge. 



74 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

Bureau of Construction of Roads and Avenues. ;^* 

M. A. Kellogg, Engineer -in- Chief. 

Bureau of Encumbrances. 

Seth C. Douglass, Superintendent. 



DEPARTMENT OP DOCKS. 

Office, 119 Duane Street. 

Jacob A. Westervelt, President. 

Henry J, Dimock, ) ri 

Salem H. Wales, [ Commismners. 

Eugene T. Lynch, Secretary. 

George S. Greene, Jr., Engineer-in- Chief, 

EXCISE DEPARTMENT. 
Office, 299 Mulberry Street. 

James L. Stewart, ) 

William H. Stiner, [ Commissioners, 

D. D. T. Marshall. ) 

Albert G. Crowell, Chief Clerk, 



LAW DEPARTMENT. 

Office, Tryon Row. 

William H. Whitney, Council to the Corporation. 
George P. Andrews, Assistant. 



BUREAU OF CORPORATION ATTORNEY. 

Office, 115 Nassau Street. 
H. N. RuGGLES, Corporation Attorney. 
George W. Parker, and Douglas A. Levein, Jr., Assistants, 

BUREAU OF PUBLIC ADITIINISTRATION. 

Office, 115 Nassau Street. 

Isaac Dayton, Public Administrator. 
L. H. Arnold, Jr., Chief Clerk. 



DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS. 
Office, 36 Union Square (East). 

Hon. Henry G. Stebbins, President. ^ 

Wm. R. Martin, 

David B. Williamson, f Commissi^ 

Joseph J. O'Donohue,' 



MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT. 



75 



William. Irwin, Secretary. 

F. L. Olmsted, Landscape ArcJdtect. 

John Bogart, Siqjt. and Engineer. 

General G. S. Greene, Engineer of Construction. 

J. J, R. Croes, Civil and Topographical Engineer. 

Julius Munckwitz, Supt. of Parks, and Supt. and Architects 

E. C. Morrison, Supt. of the 2dd and 2Uh Wards. 

Daniel Draper, Director of the Meteorogical Observatory. 

Wm, A. Conklin, Director of the Menagerie. 



POLICE DEPARTMENT. 

Central Office, 300 Mulberry Street. 
William F. Smith, President, "1 
John R. Voorhis, Treas. \ CMnmi^^ioner^ 
De Witt C. Wheeler, f ^^^^^*sw^^«* 

Joel B. Erhardt, 1 

Seth C. Hawley, Chief (flerk. 

George W. Walling, Superintendent, 



BUREAU OF ELECTIONS. 

300 Mulberry Street. 
D. B. Hasbrouck, Chief of the Biireav. 



BUREAU OF STREET CLEANING. 

300 Mulberry Street. 
John Gunner, Inspectoi'. 



House for Detention of Witnesses. 

203 Mulberry Street. 



Station Houses. 



Precinct. 
1st— 54 New St. 
2d— 
3d— 

4th— 9 Oak Street. 
5th — 19 Leonard. 
6th— 9 Franklin. 
7th— 247 Madison. 
8th— 128 Prince. 
9th— 94 Charles. 
10th— 89 Eldridge. 
11th— Union Market. 
12th— East 120th, n 4th av. 
13th— 178 Delancy. 
14th— 305 Mulberry. 
ISth— 221 Mercer. 
16th— 230 West 20th St. 
17th— First av., n Fifth. 



Precinct, 



18th— 327 East 22d St. 

19th— 220 East 59th St. 

20th— 434 West 37th St. 

21st— 120 East 35th St. 

22d— 347 West 47th St. 

23d— East 87th, n. av. A. 

24th— Police Boat No. 1. 

25th— 34 East 29th St. 

26th— City Hall. 

27th— 99 Liberty St. 

29th— 137 West 30th St. 

30th— 128th St., bet. 9th and 10th avs 

31st— West 100th, n. 9th av. 

32d— Tenth av. cor. W. 152d St. 

33d— Town Hall, Morrisania 

34th— Tremont. 

35th— Kingsbridge. 



'76 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



THE POLIICE FORCE IS AS FOLLOWS: 



Superintendent 1 

Inspectors 3 

Captains of Precincts 35 



Sergeants _ 139 

Patrolmen 2,261 

Doormen _. 74 



Total -- - 2,513 



Police liife Insurance Fund. 

This is a Benevolent Institution for tire benefit of retired officers, widows and 
orphans. Police Commissioners, Trustees. 



DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES AND CORRECTION. 

Corner of Third Avenue and 11th Street. 

Isaac H. Bailey, J 

Thomas S. Brennan, V Commissio'ners. 

TOWNSEND Cox, ) 

Joshua Phillips, Secretary to Board. 

The Institutions under their charge are as follows : 

Almshouse — Marshall Vought, Warden. 

Bellevue Hospital — James F. O'Rouke, Warden. 

Bureau of Medical and Surgical Relief— Foot East 26th Street. 

Centime Street Hospital — W. F. Fluhren, Surgeon. 

City Prison— Centre Street, cor. Franklin, John Quinn, Warden. 

Colored Home — Samuel Whitall, Superintendent. 

Colored Orphan Asylum— O. K. Hutchinson, Superintendent. 

Industrial School — Hart's Island ; L. Dumphy, Warde72. 

Infants' Hospital — Randall's Island ; J. C. Howard, Physician. 

Inebriate Asylum — Ward's Island ; W. L. Hardy, Physician. 

lAinatic Asylum for Females— Bla.ckwe\Vs Island; R. L. Parsons, Physician. 

Asylum for Insane Males— Ward's Island; A. E. Macdonald, Physician. 

Mirsery—HsindaWs Island ; H. de B. Clay, Keeper. 

Nursery Hospitals- John Walker, Superi7itendent. 

Out-door Poor Department— East 11th, cor. Third ave. ; George Kellock, Supt 

Penitentiary— BlackweWs Island; John M. Fox, Warden. 

Penitentiary Small-Pox and Charity Hospital— 1>. A. Kitchen, Chief. 

RandalVs /«?aw^Z— William H. Stevens, Warden. 

Workhouse BlackwelVs Island— J ose^ph Keen, Superintendent. 

New York Morgue.— Bellevue Hospital Grounds, foot 26th Street, E. R. 

Notice.— Persons visiting their friends at the Almshouse, Lunatic Asylum 
and Workhouse, go by steamboat from foot East 26th Street, at lOi a. m. The 
Bellevue Hospital can be visited daily, from 11 a. m. to 2 p. m. Special permits 
to visit the different Institutions can be obtamed at the office, 66 Third Avenue, 
corner 11th Street. 



MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT. 

FIRE DEPARTMENT. 

Oflace, 127 Mercer Street. 
Joseph L. Perley, ) 
RoswELL D. Hatch, V Commissioners. 
Vincent C. King, ) 
George H. Shelden, Fire Marshall. 

Bureau of the Chief of Department. 

Eli Bates, Chief of Dept. 
Bureau of Combustibles. 
Office, 125 Mercer Street. 
William Terhune, Inspector 
Trustees of the New York Fire Department Fund. 
Adolphus F. Ockenhausen, President. 
John J. Gorman, Secretary. 
John S. Giles, Treasurer, 174 Canal Street. 



77 



DEPARTMENT OF BUILDINGS. 

Office, No. 2 Fourth avenue. 
"Walter W. Adams, Superintendent. 
Henry J. Dudley, Deputy Superintendent. 
Thomas Donaldson, Chief Clerk. 



BOARD OF HEALTH. 

Chambers, No. 43 to 51 Police Head-quarters Building, 301 Mott Street. 

The Board of Health, under the Statutes, has legislative powers upon sub- 
iects relating to Public Health. It consists of the President of the Board of 
Police, the Health Officer of the Port and two Commissioners of Health. The 
department is divided into two bureaus— Sanitary Bureau and Bureau of Vital 
Statistics. 

The officers of the Board are as follows : 

Charles F. Chandler, President; Dr. E. G. Janeway, the President of 
the Board of Police, and Dr. S. Oakley Vanderpoel, Health Officer of ths Port; 
Emmons Clark, Secretary ; Geo. S. Hastings, Chisf CUrk. 

Chiefs op Bureau— Sanitary Bureau— Dr. W. De Forest Day, Sani- 
tary Supt; Dr. Edward H. Janes, Assistant. 

Bureau of Vital Statistics Register; Dr. John T. Nagle, 

Deputy Register. 

BOARD OF EDUCATION. 
150 Grand Street. 

This Board is composed of twenty-one Cmnmismners of Common ScTwoU, and 
has^e dTrectUa?gf of^^^^ the Common Schools and a general supervision over 
those corporate schools which participate in the school moneys of the State. 

WiLLL^ Wood, Esq., President, Board of Commismrwrs ; L. D. Kiernan 
r7Z.r^ toY KmDLE, C/% Superintendent; Norman A. Calkins, 1st Assistant; 
David SsTagc;.Sup^. BuiJdikgs; Alex. M. Stanton, Suvt. Truarwy; John, 
Dunham, Engineer. 



7B 



NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



DAILY NORMAL AND HIGH SCHOOL. 

Fourth Avenue, cor. East Sixty-eighth Street. 
Thomas Hunter, President; Arthur H. Dunden, Vice-Pres.; Miss Lydia 
P. Wadleigh, Superintendent; Model School, Martha L. Deake, PriU' 
€ipal. 

NAUTICAL SCHOOL. ^ 

Ship St. Mary's, Foot East 23d Street. 
Egbert L. Phythian, Commander. 



COUNTY OFFICERS. 



COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE. 

New County C/Ourt House, 1st floor. 

William Walsh, County Clerk. 

J. Fairfax McLaughlin, Deputy Clerk. 

J). L. Holmes, Asmtant Deputy Clerk. 

J. Henry Ford, Equity Clerk. 

Geo. W. Hardie, Law Clerk. 

Wm. Sinclair, Chambers Clerk. 

Peter M. Led with, Part 1, Clerk. 

Wm. E. Haskin, Part 2, Ckrk. 

Jolin Van Glahn, Part 3, Clerk. 

Wm. Lamb, Jr., Clerk, General Term. 

Edward McCue, Clerk, Special Term 

Stephen C. Duryea, Chief Recording Clerk. 

Edmund M. Plum, Clerk of Records. 



SHERIFF'S OFFICE. 

County Court House, 1st floor. 

William C. Conner, Sheriff. 

John T. Cumeng, Under Sheriff, 



Aaron Aarons, 
William Baird, 
Thomas F. Bourke, 
William H. Burns, 
Patrick Campbell, 
William H. Carroll, 
James Carraher, 
Charles H. Cooper, 
J. F. Cunningham, 
Rufus Dodge, 
Thomas Dunlap, Jr. 
James Fay, 



DEPUTY SHERIFFS. 

Dederick G. Gale, 
Bernard Galligan, 
William Henry, 
Martin J. Keese, 
Charles W. Upham, 
George J. Wood, 
Thomas Kerrigan, 
Mark Lanigan, 
Bernard Maguire 
Charles McNulty, 
Thomas McSpedon, 
John J. Maloney, 



Henry New, 
William H. Quincy, 
Peter Radley, 
Albert K. Rich, 
Harvey Scofield, 
Thomas Scheils, 
Charles E. Simms, 
James M. Stuart, 
John H. Hillier, 
Michael Lestrange, 



William Dunham, ) rsr \, 
William Watson, \ ^ «^*^^«, 



Ludlow Street Jail. 



COUNTY OFFICERS. 79 

sheriff's jury, 
meet for the purpose of taking inquests, and for trial of claims, and such other 
business as may be brought before them, at 4 o'clock P. M., on Monday of 
of each week. 

Coroners. 
Office, 40 East Houston street. 
Henry Woltman, Richard Croker, Anthony Eickhoff, Moritz Ellin- 

GER, Coroners. 
John J. Toal, Clerk. 

Registrar's Office. 

No. 1 Hall of Records. 
Patrick H. Jones, Begistsr; John Y. Savage, Deputy. 

SURROGATE'S OFFICE. 

County Court House, 1st floor. 
Stephen D. Van Schaick, Surrogate. 
Cornelius Minor, Chief Clerk. 
Daniel G. Gillette, Probate. 
Peter V. Burtsell, Clerk to tJie Surrogate's Court. 
James J. Traynor, Administration and Guardianship Clerk. 

Commissioners of Accounts. 
Lindsay P. Howe and Joseph J. Westray. 

Commissioners of Jurors. 

OflSce, Chambers, corner Centre Street. 
Thomas Dunlap, Commissiomr ; Alfred J. Keenan, Assistant 



Commissioners of Armories and Drill Rooms. 

58 East 14th Street. 
Sheridan Shook, Frank M. Bixby, and Charles Cowan, Commissioners. 



Tdcss. Commissioners. 

Office, New Court House, 32 Chambers Street. 
John Wheeler, George H. Andrews, John N. Haywood, Commissioners; 
Albert Storen, Secretary. 

deputy tax commissioners. 
Albert Bogart, Peter Gillespie, F. V. Ewing, John Bagler, D. M. Henri- 
ques, Joseph A. Lyons, Wm. D. A. Pearce, Fred. C. Wagner, David Mur- 
ray, Robert T. Payne, Charles H. Yallalee, Michael Coleman, Elisha J. Cald- 
well ; At large, Henry Bracken. 



Board of Assessors. 
Office, 19 Chatham Street. 
Thomas B. Aston, John M'Harg, Valentine S. Woodruff, John Mullaly, 
Assessors; John H. Munford, Secretary. 



80 NEW YOKE AS IT IS. 

Commissioners of Emigration. 

Office, Castle Garden. 

George J. Forrest, Preddent; George Starr, Henry A. Hurlbut, Daniel 
Maujer, Geo. W. Quintard, Mayor of New York, President of the German 
Society, and President of the Irish Emigrant Society; H. J. Jackson, sec. , 

Emigrant Landing Depet, Castle Garden, H. J. Jackson, Secretary of the Com^ 
mismners of Emigration. 

Supervision of City Record. 
Richard J. Morrison ; office, 2 City Hall. 



United States Loan Commissioners. 

Office, 31 Nassau Street. 
Edward G. Thompson and Charles Ingersoll, CommissioTiers. 



CIVIL COURTS. 

For the City and County of New York. 
SUPREME COURT. 
County Court House. 
Noah Davis, Clmf Justice. 

George C. Barrett, John R. Brady, Abraham R. Lawrence, and Charles Dona- 
hue, Associate Justices. 

William Walsh, Ckrk • office. County Court House ; I, Fairfax McLaughlin, 
Deputy Clerk. 

SUPERIOR COURT. 
County Court House. 
Claudius L. Monell, Chief Justiee. 

Charles Y. Sanford, Hooper C. Van Vorst, Wm. E. Curtis, John Sedgwick, 
and Gilbert M. Spier, Judges. Thomas Boese, CUrk: office. County Court 
House. William Caldwell, Deputy Clerk. 

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. 

Charles P. Daly, Chief Justice. 

George M. Van Hoesen, Charles H. Van Brunt, H. W. Robinson, R. L. 
Larreniore, and Jos. F. Tfoly , Judges. Nathaniel Jarvis, jr., Clerk- of^QQ, County 
Court House. Thomas H. Landon, Deputy Ckrk. 

NATURALIZATION BUREAU 
County Court House. 

Cn^frn'^nn^pfi''''' ""T.}^ obtained on application to the Clerks of the Court of 
v.irW?n^«^f'''''^r^^'^^^^'^ ^^ ^^'^ Supreme Court. The Clerks have the 
WanrP^rifp?l^^t?^''^n?T'^ "^^^ ^^'^ applicants for Naturalization must in every 
instance go before the Clerk before appearing in Court. 

N. Jartis, jr., Clerk of Court of Common Pleas. 
Thos. Boese, Clerk of the Superior Court. 



CIVIL COURTS. 81 

JUSTICES OF THE DISTRICT^ COURTS. 

1.— Second, Third and Fifth Wards— John Callahan, Justice. 
2.— Fourth, Sixth and Fourteenth Wards— Charles McClancy, Justice. 
3.— Eighth, Ninth and Fifteenth Wards— George W. Parker, Justice. 
4. — Tenth and Seventeenth Wards— John A. Dinkel, Justice. 
5._Seventh, EleventhandThirteenthWards— Timothy J. Campbell, Justice. 
6.— Eighteenth and Twenty-first Wards— William H. Kelly, Justice. 
7.— Nineteenth and Twenty-second Wards— Walter S. Pinckney, Justice. 
8. — Sixteenth and Twentieth Wards— Fred. G. Gedney, Justice. 
9. —Twelfth Ward— Henry F. McGowan, Justice. 

10.— Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Wards (Fordham)— John Flana- 
gan, Justice. 

CRIMINAL COURT 
Of the City and County of New York. 
Court of Oyer and Terminer, held by a Justice of the Supreme Court at the 
City Hall. 

The following are the Terms appointed by the Justices for the year 1876 : 
February Term, 1876, Justice Barrett assigned. 
November Term, 1876, Justices Brady and Davis assigned. 
The Terms commence on the first Monday of the Months above designated, 
and may be continued at the discretion of the Justices, by adjournment. 

Court of General Sessions of the Peace. — Tw^o branches of the Court are 
held on the first Monday of each month in the Court House, 83 Chamber street. 
John K. Hackett, Recorder of the City and County of New York and Pres- 
iding Justice of the Sessions. Chambers, 317 Broadw^ay, 
JosiAH Sutherland, City Judge. Chambers, 99 Nassau street. 
Henry A. Gildersleeve, Judge of the said Court. Chambers, 99 Nassau 
street. 

John Sparks, Clerk of the Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General 
Sessions of the Peace. Office, 32 Chambers street. 

Edward J. Hall, Deputy Clerk. I Charles E. Wendt, Interpreter. 

William C. Stewart, Assistant Clerk. \ William Anderson, Stenographer. 

DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, 
32 Chambers Street. 
Benjamin K. Phelps, District Attorney, City and County of New^ York. 
Assistants — Daniel G. Rollins, George W. Lyon, Joseph Bell, Horace Russell, 
William Herring. Moses P. Clark, Chief Clerk of Office. 

MARINE COURT, 

32 Chambers Street (Old Court House), and 27 Chambers Street. 

This Court is held daily (except Sundays), and its jurisdiction has been in- 
creased lately to $2,000, and has been made a Court of record. It was organized 
in 1813 to try marine cases. 

George Shea, Chief Justice. 

James B. Sheridan, Charles Goepp, Jas. P. Sinnot, Henry Alker, David 
McAdam, Justices. John D. Coughlin, Clerk. J. Howard Wood, Deputy Clerk. 



82 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

COURT OF SPECIAL SESSIONS, 
For the trial of criminal cases. Room in the " Tombs," on Centre Street. 
Butler H. Bixby, President. 

Charles A. Flammcr, George E. Kasmire, James T. Kilbreth, Bankson T. 
Morgan Henry Murray, Marcus Ottcnbourg, F. Sherman Smith, Thomas D, 
Shemood. Benj. C. Wandell, N. K. Wheeler, Justices. Robert H. Johnson. 
Clerk. Merwin N. Jones, Deputy Clerk. 

POLICE COURTS. 

First District— kX the "Tombs," corner Centre and Franklin streets. Butler 
H. Bixby an*! Chas. A. Flammer, Judges. 

Second District.— l'^ Washington place. Bankson T. Morgan and James T. 
Kilbreth, Judges. 

Third District.— m Essex street. George E. Kasmire and Marcus Otterbourg, 



Fourth District.— \^\ East 57th street. Patrick G. Duffy and Henry Murray, 



Fifth District.— 12Z East 125th street. Benjamin C. Wandell and F. Sherman 
Smith, Judges. 
Sixth District.— (FoTdham,) 24th Ward. Nelson K. Wheeler, Judge. 

B. H. Bixby, President. 

George W. Cooney, Secretary, 18 Washington place. 

Police Justices. 

The Board, by resolutions, made the following assignments of Police Jus- 
tices to preside at the Court of Special Sessions during the ensuing year. 

January. — Justices Smith, Wheeler and Otterbourg. 

February. — Justices Flammer, Duffy and Wandell. 

March. — Justices Kilbreth, Smith and Murray. 

April. — Justices Wheeler, Wandell and Murray. 

May. — Justices Murray, Morgan and Otterbourg. 

June.— Justices Bixby, Kilbreth and Wandell. 

July. — Justices Morgan, Wheeler and Smith. 

August. — Justices Duffy, Kasmire and Murray, 

September. — Justices Otterbourg, Bixby and Morgan. 

October. — Justices Kasmire, Kilbreth and Flammer. 

November. — Justices Wandell, Murray and Morgan. 

December. — Justices Flammer, Duffy and Kasmire. 
A resolution was carried that the Police Justices rotate on the 1st of May 
next to the several Police Courts in the city, for four months each, and that 
no Justice sit at one Court twice in succession. 



CITY RECORD. 

No. 2 City Hall. 
M. J. Farrell, Supervisor. 



ETC. 83 

COURT OF ARBITRATION OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. 

No. 63 William street. 

Enoch L. Fancher, Arbitrator. 
George Wilson, Clerk. 



HARBOR MASTERS. 

Edmund B. Seaman, Captain of tJie Port ; J. M. Thompson, Samuel Duncan, 
Edward G. Tinker, Eugene Frost, John W. Tyler, F. R. Tucker, John W. 
Downing, Jos. L. Brosens, John Johnson, John Maginn and Henry W. 
Johnson. 

COMMISSIONERS OF QUARANTINE. 
Office No. 2 Exchange Court. 
W. L. B. Steaks, Presiden t; David W. Judd, James McQuade, Commissioners; 
Theo. E. Leeds, Secretary. 

PILOT COMMISSIONERS, &C. 

Board of Commissioners of Pilots, Office 40 Burling slip, where application can 
"be made for New York Sandy Hook Pilots. — Robert L. Taylor, Ambrose Snow, 
George W. Blunt and Wm. C. Thompson, Commissioners. 

JVew Jersey Pilots, office 104 South street. 

JBkll Gate Pilots, office 23 Coenties slip. 

Sound Pilots, office 89 South street. 

PORT WARDEN, 

Office, 77 Front Street. 
Horatio S. Brown, President ; H. M. Janes, Wm. H. Leaycraf t, Theo. F. C. 
Petra'^ch, Robert S. Dumont, Geo. C. Burdett, John Sherry, Henry Waterman, 
and H. L. Robinson ; Samuel L. Kennedy, Secretary ; George B. Q^Wti^, Collector. 

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR LICENSING SAILORS' BOARDING 

HOUSES. 
George W. Blunt, President ; J. K. Myers, N. Briggs, N. D. Wells and C. 
C Duncan, Commissioners ; D. A. Nash, Secretary. 

BOARD OF PHARMACY. 
Office, 20 University Building. 
William Neerguard, President; Theobald Trohwein, Secretary. 



UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT 

southern district op new YORK. 

Rooms in Post Office Building. 

Jurisdiction extends over Ihe Counties of New York, Westchester, Rockland, 
Orange, Putnam Dutchess, Columbia, Greene, Ulster and Sullivan. 

Ward Hunt, Associate Justice of the IF. S. Supreme Court and Judge of the 
Circuit Court. Louis B. Woodruff, Circuit Judge. Kenneth G. White, Clerk. 



84 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, 

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. 
OFFICERS, &C. 

Samuel Blatckfohb, Judge; George T. Belts, Clerk. General Term.— First 
Tuesday in every month. Special Term.—E\erj Tuesday for return of process. 
George Bliss, jr., tf. States District Attorney ; Oli\t:r Fiske, U. States Marshal. 

Eastern District of New York: Counties of Kings, Queens, Suffolk, Rich- 
mond and the AYaters of the City and County of N. York. 

District and Circuit Courts held in Brooklyn on 1st Wednesday of each 
month. 

Charles L. Benedict, Judge; Asa W. Tenney, District Attorney; Samuel 
R. Harlow, U. States Marshal. 

LIST OF OFFICL\LS IN BANKRUPTCY. 

Samuel Blatchford, Judge; George F. Betts, C lerk; A. C. Wilmarth, 
Ckrk in charge of Bankruptcy OflSce ; Oliver Fiske, Marshal. 

REGISTRARS. 

Isaiah T. Willl\ms, 4 Warren St.; John Fitch, 345 Broadway; Isaac 
Dayton, 322 Broadway; Henry W. Allen, 152 Broadway; James F. Dwight, 
7 Beekman st; Edgar Ketchum, 99 Nassau st. 



HEALTH STATISTICS— BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES, AC, 1875. 

AaTAL STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR. 

Thefolloicing table sJwws the number of deaths, still-births, marriages and births 
for the year 1875: 

Still- Mar- 
Deaths, births. rlages. Births. 

January 2,763 185 583 2,100 

February 2.420 187 579 1,888 

March 2,672 200 489 2,209 

April 2,415 198 724 1,927 

May 2,403 199 736 1,670 

June 2,243 182 677 1,922 

July 3,631 180 649 2,046 

August 2,968 178 518 2,086 

September 2,639 156 620 1,976 

October 2,175 179 710 1,996 

November 2,033 185 732 1,952 

December 2,228 211 548 2,041 

Totals 30,590 2,240 9,565 23,813 



The following table gives the nwrtality frora the principal diseases for the past two 
years, with other information of an interesting character : 

1874. 1875. 

Small-pox 484 1,265 

Measles 319 I6.3 

Scarlatma §79 504 

Diphtheria ! ■!!!■"!■!";!■!;!!!;■!!.■!■■■■■'!!■■ 1,665 2,310 

Croup. 594 765 

Whooping-cough 439 4O3 

Typhus and Typhoid fever 293 363 

Puerperal diseases 315 363 



HEALTH STATISTICS, ETC 



85 



1874. 

Biarrhoeal diseases, all ages 3,569 

Diarrhoeal diseases, under five years 3,190 

Alcoholism 227 

Cancer 416 

Phthisis pulmonalis (Consumption) 4,034 

Bronchitis 1,065 

Pneumonia 2,398 

Heart diseases 973 

Marasmus and tabes mesenterica, hydrocephalus, &c 627 

Convulsions 671 

Meningitis 563 

Direct effect of solar heat 19 

All d seases of the brain and nervous system 2,451 

Brijihfs disease 827 

Deaths by violence and accidents 1,008 

Deaths by suicide 180 

Deaths by drowning 174 

Deaths of children under one year 8,279 

Deaths of children under five years 13,956 



1875. 

3,716 

3,357 

167 

409 

4.154 

1.106 

2,775 

1,095 

595 

666 

700 

19 

2,350 

1,084 

1,177 

152 

178 

7,503 

14,806 



The follotcing table sJioics the classification of the whole number of Deaths for the 
past two years : 

1874. 1875. 

Zymotic diseases 9.802 10.868 

Constitutional diseases 6,023 6.072 

Local diseases 9,987 10,711 

Developmental diseases 1,667 1,736 

Deaths by violence 1,248 1,203 

Total 28,727 30,590 

The Death Rate for 1875, taking the Population at 1,060,000, is equal to 28.86 per 1,000. 



Wards. 



NEW YORK CITY.— State Census, 1875. 
Showing the Population and Deaths by Wards. 



Popula- 
tion. 
14,209 
1,013 
2,878 
20,843 
15,966 
19,880 
45,656 
32,488 
49,417 
41,777 
63,874 
59,029 
34,028 
26,471 



Deaths, 

1875. 

473 
45 
75 

623 

414 

672 
1,217 

950 

1,239 

1,192 

1,983 

*2,118 

875 

753 



Wards. 


Popla- 
tion. 


Deaths 
1875. 


15 


25,543 


476 


16 


48.253 


983 


17 


101,094 


2,486 


18 


61,207 


1,383 


19 


117,835 


t5,105 


20 


79,671 
58,883 


2,169 


21 


2.101 


22 


83,549 


2,459 


23 


24,331 


628 


24 


11,875 


281 


Asvlums, Penal Institu- 






tions, &c 

Total 


6,267 


— 


1,016,037 


30,709 



* Includes the deaths on Ward's and Randall Island. 
t Including deaths on Blackweira Island. 



SQ NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

Table slwioing the Debt and Taxes of New York City for every Five Years since 1800. 



P5 


Valuation of Property. 




Tax per 




rrl 




Population. 


Head op 


Debt. 


>^ 


REAL AND PER- 
SONAL ESTATE, 


TAX LEVT. 




Populat'n 




1800 
1805 
1810 
1815 
1820 
1825 
1830 






60,489 






$25,645,868 

25,486,370 

81,636,042 

69,517,683 

101,194,546 

125,288,518 


$127,094 87 
129,727 15 

361 285 46 






96,373 


$1 35 






339,891 94 
386,448 85 
509,178 44 


123,706 
166,089 
202,589 


2 75 




2 33 




2 51 


Dec. 31, $774,555 66 


1835 


218,723,703 


965,502 94 


270,068 


8 58 


902,534 8a 


1840 


253,233,517 


1,354,845 29 


312,852 


4 33 


10,775,385 84 


1845' 239,995,517 


2,096,191 18 


371,223 


5 65 


13,629,581 22 


1850 286,161,816 


3,230,085 02 


515,394 


6 27 


12,204,176 28 


1855 486,998,278 


5,843,832 89 


629,810 


9 28 


15,024,418 d9> 


1860 576,631,706 


9,758,507 86 


814,254 


11 99 


18,901,440 54 


1865! 608.827,855 
1870 1,047,388,449 


18 202,858 00 






35,973,597 11 


23,566,240 00 


942,292 


25 11 


73,373,552 0^ 


1871 ;1, 076,253,633 

1872 1 104 098 087 


23 361 674 00 






88,369,386 90 


32 035,480 00 






95,582,153 09 


18731,129,139,623 
1874 1 1 54 029 1 76 


28,230,996 00 




106,363,471 07 


32,312,816 92 






114,979.969 99 


1875 


1,100,943,699 


32,367,744 75 


1,046,037 


32 00 


116,773,824 09 



REMARKS. 

The Debt of New York City is about one hundred and fifteen dollars of debt 
to everj^ man, woman and child. 

The rate of Taxation has increased from one-half of one per cent, in 1805 to two 
and 7iine-tenths per cent, in 1875. 

The amount of Tax now to each inhabitant is $30, while in 1810, sixty-five 
years ago, it was only $1.35 — being now nearly twenty four times as much as 
then. 

While the property in 1810 was $264 to each inhabitant, now it is $1,154, or 
about four times what it was then. In other words, the taxes have increased 
six times as fast as the property. 

Notwithstanding the enormous taxation, the debt has increased from $3.82 to 
each inhabitant, to $114.98 in the last forty-five years. From 1865 to 1875 the 
debt has grown from thirty-five millions to one hundred and twenty millionsv 
The rate of taxation per $100 ia $2.94. 

Tax Levy for 1876. 

The Board of Estimate and Apportionment decided to fix the financial budget 
for 1876 at $30,904,395.64, after deducting the sum of $4,000,000, which it was 
estimated, would be the revenue from the general fund. 



PUBLIC CHARITIES. 87 

PUBLIC CHARITIES— 1876. 

^ Amounts allowed to certain Charities from the excise moneys. The following 
list as those best entitled to share in the award, and the amount which should 
be given to each, was submitted by the Comptroller. This list was agreed upon : 

DISPENSARIES. 

Name. Allowance for 1876. 

1 _ _ New York Dispensary $1 , 285 53 

2 . . Demilt Dispensary 1 ,097 32 

3- -Eastern Dispensary _ 1,020 42 

4- -North-Eastern Dispensary 968 15 

5- -German Dispensary 1,039 92 

6- -North-Western Dispensary 986 40 

7- -Northern Dispensary 994 44 

8- - Yorkville Dispensary 953 53 

9.. Harlem Dispensary 387 00 

10 -.West Side German Dispensary 351 90 

11.. Western Homoeopathic Dispensary. 756 96 

12. -Tompkin's Square Horn. Dispensary 620 10 

13. -N. Y. Hom. Medical College Dispensary 458 01 

14. -North-Eastern Homoeopathic Dispensary 432 96 

15- -Yorkville Homoeopathic Dispensary 112 16 

16 . - N. Y. Free Dispensary for Sick Children 388 64 

17- -Metropolitan Throat Hospital 276 00 

18-. N. Y. Dis. for Diseases of Throat and Chest 631 80 

HOMES AND ASYLUMS. 

1-. Asylum of the Sisters of St. Dominic... .$3,925 00 

2-. Five Points House of Industry 1,425 00 

3.. Institution of Mercy 3,922 00 

4.. St. Joseph's Industrial Home for Destitute Children 2,550 00 

5.. Home for Aged (in charge of Little Sisters of the Poor)... 2,220 00 

6_-St. Joseph's Home for the Aged 2,190 00 

7.-The Sheltering Arms __ 2,025 00 

8- -Association for Befriending Children and Young Girls 1,500 00 

9 -.Home for Aged and Intirm Hebrews 1,043 90 

10. .St. Vincent's Home for Boys 1,275 00 

11.. Chapin Home for Aged and Infirm... _ 1,000 00 

12.. St. Vincent's Industrial Home (for Girls) 960 00 

13. -Samaritan Home for the Aged _ 900 00 

14- .St. Barnabas' House 750 00 

15. .Home for Incurables 700 00 

16. -Home for Old Men and Aged Couples . 480 00 

17.. Home of Rest for Consumptives... 400 00 

18- -New York Asylum for Lying-in Women. 1,225 00 

19- -St. Stephen's Home for Children 800 00 

20- -Home for Fallen and Friendless Girls- 3,300 00 

21_.St. Luke's Home for Indigent Christian Females.. 1,300 00 

HOSPITxVLS. 

1 . - St. Francis Hospital $3, 168 75 

2 - - New York Orthopaedic Dispensary 2, 280 00 



NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

3. -St Vincent's Hospital 1,890 00 

4 -Mt. Sinai Hospital .-- 1,348 60 

5.-St. Luke's Hospital - 1,130 40 

6 New York Medical College and Hospital for Women 543 40 

7-. German Hospital. -- - C90 00 

8-. St. Elizabeth's Hospital--.. -- - 700 00 

9. -St. Mary's Free Hospital for Children 200 00 

INFIRMARIES. 

l.-New York Ophthalmic and Aural Institute $1,545 20 

2 - -New York Eye and Ear Inlirmary - 2,047 20 

3- -N. Y. Infirmary for Women and Children 1,034 80 

4. -West Side Infirmary for Diseases of the Eye and Throat. 171 80 
5- -Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital _ 643 60 

6. .New York Ear Dispensary- - - - t 318 00 

7. -New York Ophthalmic Hospital - 779 60 

ORPHAN ASYLUMS. 

l.-Associationfor the Benefit of Colored Orphans $1,375 00 

2. .Asylum of St. Vincent de Paul 650 00 

3.. Orphans' Home and Asylum of the P. E. Church _ 750 00 

4.. St. Joseph's Asylum ._ 990 00 

5 _ .Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum 6,095 00 

CHARITABLE SOCIETIES AND MISSIONS. 

1 . - The Church Mission to Deaf Mutes - $450 00 

2..Five Points Mission _. 1,633 75 

3. -Howard Mission _ 1,000 00 

4 -.Ladies' Union Relief Association for Care of Disabled 

Soldiers and their Families..- .__ 4,200 00 

5. -Ladies' Society for the Support of Widows and Or- 
phans 1,250 00 

6. .New York Diet Kitchen 1,314 00 

7 -.New York Female Assistance Society for the Relief of 

theSickPoor.. .._ 1,125 00 

8. .New York Free Medical College for Women 438 25 

9. .Prison Association of New York 3,267 00 

10.. St. Johns' Guild-- 3,000 00 

11. -Society for the Relief of Destitute Children of Sea- 
men 855 00 

12-_Society for the Relief of the Destitute Blind (home for 

the blind) __ I^OOO 00 

13.. Society of St. Vincent de Paul of the City of New 

.. r^^P^y - --- 2,859 00 

14. .Trammg School for Nurses. 800 00 

15.. United Hebrew Charities of the City of New York 2,065 50 

16. .Wilson Industrial School and Mission 350 00 

17.. Woman's Aid Society and Home for Training Young 

1ft w^''^'v-f>-"---r— ." - -— - 300 00 

18-- Women s Prison Association 450 00 



Total _ $100,908 69 



PART IV. 

COLLEGES, ACADEMIES AND SCHOOLS. 

COLUMBIA COLLEGE. 
{Formerly King's College.) 

This venerable Institution of learning is now located on East Forty-ninth 
Street, between Madison and Fourth Avenues. 

Historical Sketch. — "The establishment of a College in the City of New York 
(during Colonial times), was many j'ears in agitation before the design was car- 
ried into effect. At length, under an Act of Assembly, passed in December, 
1746, and other similar acts which followed, moneys were raised by public lot- 
tery "for the encouragement of learning, and towards the founding a College" 
within the Colony. These moneys were, in November, 1751, vested in trustees, 
ten in number, of whom seven were members of the Church of England, and 
some of these seven were also vestrymen of Trinity Church. 

"These circumstances, together with the liberal grant of land to the College 
by Trinity Church, excited apprehensions of a design to introduce a church- 
establishment within the province, and caused violent opposition to the plan, as 
soon as it became known, of obtaining a royal charter for the College. This 
opposition, however, being at last in a great measure surmounted, the charter 
w^as granted on the 31st of October, 1754; from which period the existence of 
the College is properly to be dated. " 

The College building was first erected on Park Place, west of Broadway, 
bounded by Broadway, Church and IMurray Streets, and by the Hudson River, 
and known as King's College. In 1760 the College buildings began to be occu- 
pied, and these stood for one hundred and three years, until its removal to 
another site, in 1857, occasioned by the demands of the business of the city, 

" Since the passing of the charter, the institution hath received great emolu- 
ments by grants from his most gracious majesty King George the Third, and 
liberal contributions from many of the nobility and gentry in the parent coun- 
try, from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, and 
from several public-spirited gentlemen in America and elsewhere. By means of 
these and other benefactions, the governors of the College have been enabled to 
extend their plan of education, herein being taught, by proper masters and pro- 
fessors — Divinity Natural Law, Physic, Logic, Ethics, Metaphysics, Mathe- 



90 NEW YOKK AS IT IS. 

matics. Natural Philosophy, Astronomy, Geography, History, Chronology, 

Rhetoric, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Modern Languages, the Belles-Lettres, and 

whatever else of literature may tend to accomplish the pupils as scholars and 

gentlemen." 

Present Organization of the College. 

DEPARTMENTS OP INSTRUCTION. 

1, — The Greek Language and Literature. 

2. — The German Language and Literature. 

3. — Chemistry. 

4. — Mathematics and Astronomy. 

5. — Mathematics. 

6. — Philosophy, History, Political Economy and Belles-Lettres. 

7. — Physics. 

8. — Latin Language and Literature. 

9. — Botany. 

SCHOOL OF MINES. 

The Faculty of the School of Mines consists of the President of the College,, 
and the Professors of Mineralogy and Metallurgy, of Mining Engineering, and 
of Chemistry, and such other Professors as may hereafter be assigned by the 
Trustees. 

The School of Mines was established in 1864, for the purpose of furnishing 
students the means of acquiring a thorough knowledge of those branches of 
science which form the basis of the industrial pursuits. 
The system of instruction includes five parallel courses of study, viz : — 
1. — Civil Engineering. 
2. — Mining Engineering. 
3.— Metallurgy. 

4. — Geology and Natural History. 
5.— Analytical and Applied Chemistry. 
In this Department there are now 201 students. 

SCHOOL OP LAW. 

The President of the College and Professors engaged in the institution in the 
Law School shall constitute the Law Faculty. In this department there are 523 
Students. 

SCHOOL OP MEDICINE. 

The College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York constitute 
the Medical School of Columbia College. 

Alonzo Clark, M. D., President. 
In this Department there are 452 students. 

Officers of the college, 1875-76. 

They consist of a Board of twenty-three Trustees and the following Com- 
mittees : ° 

STANDING COMMITTEE. 

Gouverneur M. Ogden, Chairman, Wm. C. Schermerhorn, 
William Betts. LL. D. , Anthony H alsey, 

Charles R. Swords, Joseph W. Harper, 

Lewis M. Rutherford. 



COLLEGES, ACADEMIES, ETC. 91 

COMMITTEE ON THE LIBRARY. 

Fred. A. P. Barnard, S.T.D., LL.D., Evert A. Duyckinck, 
Benj. S. Haight, S.T.D., LL.D., James W. Beekman, 

Beverly R, Betts, Clerk. 

Officers of instruction and government. 

Fred. A. P. Barnard, S.T.D., LLD., President. 

Alonzo Clark, M. D., President of the School of Medicine. 

Andrew J. Anderson, M.D., LL.D., Prof, of Math, and Astronomy. 

Henry Drisler, LL.D., Prof, of Greek Language and Literature. 

Henry I. Schmidt, S.T.D., Prof, of German Language, &c. 

Cornelius R. Dufle, S.T.D., Chaplain. 

Charles A. Joy, Ph. D., Prof, of Chemistry. 

Charles Davies, LL.D., Prof, of Higher Mathematics. 

"William G. Peck, LL.D., Prof, of Mathematics, Astronomy, <S/C. 

Charles M. Nairne, M. xV. , Prof, of Moral and Int. Philosophy. 

Theo. W. Dwight, LL.D., Prof, of Municipal Law, &c. 

John Ordronaux, M.D., Prof, of Medical Jurisprudence. 

J. Howard Van Amringe, A. 31., Prof, of Mathematics. 

Willard Parker, M.D.,"Prof. of Surgery and Surgical Anatomy. 

John C. Dalton, M. D. , Prof, of Physiology and Hygiene. 

Samuel St. John, M.D., Prof, of Chemistry. 

Thomas M. Markoe, Adjunct Prof, of Surgery. 

Charles T. Chandler, Ph. D., M.D., Prof, of Analytical and Applied Chem- 
istry, and Dean of the School of Mines, &c. 

John S. Newberry, M.D., LL.D., Prof, of Geology, &c., besides sixty-eight 
other Professors and Assistants. 

Scholars, 1875-76. 



Senior Class 41 

Junior Class 29 

Sophomore Class 54 



Freshmen Class 48 

Total 173 



There is an Annual Commencement on the last Wednesday in June, whert 
academical degrees are conferred, and orations delivered by members of the 
graduating class. The regular course of study commences on the first Monday^ 
in October of each year. 

SCHOOL OF LAW, COLUMBIA COLLEGE. 

FACULTY. 

F. A. P. Barnard, D.D., LL.D., Columbia College, President. 
Theodore W. Dwight, LL.D., 8 Great Jones street. 

Warden of the Law School and Pi'of. of Municipal Law. 

, Pi'of. of Constitutional History and Public Law. 

Charles Murray Nairne, L.H.D., Prof, of Ethics of Jurisprudence. 
John Ordronaux, M.D., LL.D., Prof, of MedicalJurisprudence. 
George Chase, LL.D., instructor in Municipal Law. 

The design of the Law School is to afford a complete course of legal education 
for gentlemen intended for the bar in any of the United States, except in matters. 



^92 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

of mere local law and practice. The Annual Term of this Institution com- 
mences on the first AVednesclay in October, and continues until Wednesday, 
JVIay 12, 

The reffular and systematic instruction of the students upon the various 
topics of legal science is under the special control cf Prof. Theo. W. D wight, 
LL.D., Warden of the Law School. 



COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OF NEW YORK. 

Medical Department of Columbia College. 

Rooms, Twenty-third Street, corner Fourth Avenue. 

This Institution was founded in the year 1807, by an Act of the Legislature of 
New York, at the recommendation of the Regents of the University, by whose 
immediate government it is controlled. 

Officers, 1875. 

Alonzo Clark, M. D., Preddent. 
Edward L. Beadle, M. D. , Vice-President. 
Ellsworth Eliot, M. D., Registrar. 
Cambridge Livingston, Treasurer. 

faculty op medicine. 

Alonzo Clark, M.D., Professor of Pathology, &c 

Willard Parker, M.D., Prof, of Clinical Surgery. 

John C. Dalton, M.D., Prof, of Physiology and Hygiene. 

Samuel St. John, M.D., Prof, of Chemistry, &c. 

Thomas M. Markoe, M.D., Prof, of Surgery 

T. Garland Thomas, M.D., Prof, of Obs^etfics, &c. 

John T. Melcalfe, M.D., Prof, of Clinical Medicine. 

Henry B. Sands, M.D., Prof, of Anatomy. 

James W McLane, M.D., Adjunct Prof, of Obstetrics, &c, 

Thomas T. Sabine, M.D., Adjunct Prof, of Anatomy 

Charles F. Chandler, Ph.D., Adjunct Prof, of Chemistry, &c. 

Edward Curtis, M.D., Prof, of Materia Medica, &c. 

Wi ham Detmold, M.D., Prof of Clinical and :Military Surgery. 

William H. Draper M.D., Clinical Prof, of Diseases of the Skin. 

Cr. R. Agnew, M.D., Clinical Prof, of Diseases of the Eye and Ear. 

Abraham Jacobi, M.D., Clinical Prof, of Diseases of Children. 

Fessenden N. Otis, M.D., Clinical Prof, of Venereal Disease. 

Edward C. Segum, M.D., Clinical Prof of Diseases of the Mind, &c. 

riK 1 ^V^S^^' ^^- ^,- ' ^tijunct Lecturer on Physiology and Hygiene. | 

Char es M. Burney, M.D., Demonstrator of Amatomy ^^ ' 

Charles Kelsey M. D. , Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy 

George B. Fowler, M.D., Curator of the College Museumf 

The annual number of Students attending this Medical Institution amounts 
to about 400. 



COLLEGES, ACADEMIES, ETC. 93 

Annual Announcement. 

In THE Plan of Instruction adopted by the College of Physicians and Sur-^ 
geons, Clinical Teaching constitutes an important and prominent feature, all 
the practical subjects treated in the Didactic Course being fully illustrated at 
the bedside. In the furtherance of this object, the College itself and the exten- 
sive Hospitals of New York furnish ample fields for instruction and study. 

The College Clinics, held within the College building, have been for 
some years an important feature of the course. In these Clinics a great 
variety of diseases in all the prominent departments of Practical Medicine and 
Surgery are presented for observation and diagnosis, their peculiarities ex- 
plained by the lecturer, the appropriate treatment prescribed, and the requisite 
surgical operations performed before the class. Opportunities are also afforded 
at successive Clinics for observing the effect of remedies on the progress of 
the case. 

In this way, besides the Clinics held at the various Hospitals, nine are 
given each week in the College, thus affording constant opportunities for clini- 
cal instruction, without the otherwise necessary loss of time. Buving the year 
1874, 6,000 new patients were registered. 

At the Bellevue Hospital, situated within ten minutes' walk of the College, 
at the corner of 26th Street and First Avenue, will be found the largest collec- 
tion of medical and surgical cases in the United States. This institution receives, 
over six thousand patients annually, thus affording to the student the oppor- 
tunity of seeing for himself the greatest possible number and variety of diseases. 
Clinical Lectures are given at this Hospital by Professors Clark, Markoe, 
Sands, Jacobi, and others. The Medical Colleges in the city are equally repre- 
sented as regards the number of Attending Physicians and Surgeons, and the 
number of hours devoted to Clinical Instruction. 

At the Charity Hospital, Blackwell's Island, there are over one thousand 
patients, a large number of whom are affected with Chronic Diseases of various 
kinds ; and, in the Venereal Wards is a very valuable collection of Syphilitic 
Diseases and other affections of the Genito-urinary System, both chronic and 
acute. Clinical instruction is given by Prof. Otis and Dr. R. W. Taylor. 

The Roosevelt Hospital, in 59th Street and Tenth Avenue, has been for 
three years in successful operation. Professors Parker, Clark^ Metcalfe, 
Markoe, Sands, Thomas, Draper, and Dr. Weir, are members of the Medi- 
cal and Surgical Staff of the Hospital. 

The Dispensaries of New York form a valuable addition to the means of 
clinical observation in a large class of affections. There are twenty-one of 
these dispensaries, situated in various parts of the city, where the sick poor, 
whose aliments are not of such a nature as to confine them to their homes, re- 
sort for advice and treatment. One of the largest and finest of these institu- 
tions is the Demilt Dispensary, situated at the corner of Twenty-third Street 
and Second Avenue, within a few minutes' walk of the College. At this Dis- 
pensary, over 23,000 patients were examined and treated during the past year. 
The diseases are divided into various classes, each class being examined and 
prescribed for by the attending physicians, who are in attendance daily from 
9 to 4 P.M. 



94 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

At the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, 18tli Street and Second 
Avenue, over 10,000 new patients and 1,200 operations were recorded during 
the past 3'ear. Prof. Curtis is connected with the Eye Department, Dr. Buck 
with that for Diseases of the Ear, and Dr. Weir with that for Diseases of the 
Throat. 

At the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, 233 E. 34th Street, of which 
Prof. Agnew is Surgeon, 3,100 new patients were treated, and 580 operations, 
thought worthy of record, performed. 

At the New York Ophthalmic and Aural Institute, 46 East 12th Street, 
under the cliarge of Dr. Knapp, 4,145 new patients were treated, and 412 ope- 
rations, exclusive of minor ones, were performed during the past year. It is at 
this Institution that the Instruction in the Physical Examination of the Eye is 
^iven. 

The Collegiate Year embraces a Summer Session and a Winter Session. 



UNIVERSITY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK 
Was chartered in 1831, and opened for tlie reception of students in October, 1832. 
The buildings for this Institution are situated on the east side of Washington 
Square, between Waverly Place and Washington Place. The style of the archi- 
tecture is the English Collegiate Gothic, being built of marble ; the edifice 
forms one of the most splendid ornaments of the City. It is one hundred feet 
wide, and one hundred and eighty feet long. The Chapel, Library Room and 
of!ices for the Faculty, are large and well fitted up with every convenience. 
The number of students, the present year (1875), are 575. The Institution is 
xichly endowed and in a prosperous condition. 

OFFICERS OF THE COUNCIL, 

John Taylor Johnson. Esq., President. 
William R Martin, Esq., Secretary. 
Morris K. Jesup, Esq., Treamrer. 
Howard Crosby, D.D., LL.D., ChancelUyr. 

MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL. 

wnr*^ "C l^'^l-'"^-— Mancius S. Hutton, D.D., Robert h. Kennedy, Esq., 
Wilham K Dodge, Esq., William R. Martin, Esq., George H. Moore, Esq., 
AuLmstus F. Smith, Esq., Alexander R. Thompson, D.D. 

6 c^y« q/- 1872-76^-Hon. William B. Maclay, John Taylor Johnston, Esq., 
George Griswold, Esq Samuel J. Tilden, Esq., D. B. St. John Roosa, M.D. 
John Hall IX DD. Willis James, Esq., S. O. Vanderpoel, Esq. 

(7tes-«^/1873-77.-E. P. Rogers. D.D., Howard Crosby, D.D., LL.D., Joh?i 

f.t^^T\^''l\•' ^^^'^.^- ^^^^^«"' E^q- J- W. C. Leverid-e, Esq., F. W. 
Len e, M p. Hon. ED. Morgan, W. B. Duncan, Esq.. Smith E. Lane, Esq. 
6/fm o/ 1874- .8.-Charles Butler, Esq., William M. Vermilye, Esq., William 

t Wi^'pWi; ^T.'"^' ^A?''^' \ J^f "P' ^^^^ ^'^^-^^ J- Vanderpoel Esq. William 
A. Wheelock, Esq.. Abram S. Hewitt, Esq., Rev. S. M. Hamilton 



COLLEGES, ACADEMIES, ETC. 95 

Officers and Instructors in ths University of the City of New York. 

Howard Crosby, D. D., LL.D., 

Chancellor. 

E. A. Johnson, LL.D., 

Professor of the Latin Language and Literature. 

John W. Draper, M.D., LL.D., 

Professor of Chemistry and Natural History, 

Martyn Payne, M.D., L.L.D., 

Emeritus Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. 

Alfred C. Post, M.D., 

Emeritus Professor of Surgery. 

Benjamin N. Martin, D.D., L.H.D., 

Professor ol Logic and Intellectual and Moral Philosophy. 

Richard H. Bull, A.M., 

Professor of Civil Engineering. 

Henry M. Baird, Ph.D., 

Professor of the Greek Language and Literature. 

George W. Coakley, LL.D., 

Professor of Mathematics, Natural Philosophy and Astronomy. 

John C. Draper, M.D., 

Professor of Chemistr3\ 

Charles A. Budd, M.D., 

Prof, of Obstetrics, the Diseases of Women and Children, and Clinical Midwifery. 

Henry Draper, M.D., 

Professor of Physiology and Analytical Chemistry. 

Alfred L. Loomis, M.D., 

Professor of Pathology and Practice of Medicine. 

William Darling, M.D., 

Professor of General amJ Descriptive Anatomy. 

FaneuilD. Weisse, M.D., 

Professor of Surgical Pathology. 

T. Addison Richards, N.A., 

Professor of Art. 

D. B. St. John Roosa, M.D., 

Clinical Professor of Diseases of the Eye and Ear. 

Louis Elsberg, M.D., 

Professor of Laryngology and Diseases of the Throat. 

E. H. GiLLETT, D.D., 

Professor of Political Science. 
ViCENZO BOTTA, Ph.D., 
Professor of the Italian Language and Literature. 

William H. Thomson, M.D., 

Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. 

Hon. Henry E. Davies, LL.D., 

President of the Law Faculty. 

Hon. E. Delafield Smith, A.M., 

Professor of Law. 

Together with thirty other Professors in different departments of learning. 



96 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

COLLEGE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 
The Fkee Academy, incorporated May 7, 1847, established in 1848, and the 
organization completed in 1851 by the Hon. Townsend Harris, under the 
direction of the Board of Education of the City of New York, in pursuance of 
an Act of the Legislature of the State. Horace Webster, LL.D., Principal. 

NEW CHARTER. 

In the year 1854 the Legislature passed a law endowing the Institution with 
full collegiate powers and privileges, so far as pertained to the conferring upon 
its graduates the usual Collegiate degrees and diplomas in the Arts and Sciences. 
In the year 1866, on the recommendation of the Board of Education, the Legis- 
lature of the State, by an act passed March 30, changed the name to that of 
" The College of the City of Xew York," and conferred on the Institution 
all the powers and privileges of a College, pursuant to the Revised Statutes of 
the State, and making the members of the Board of Education ex officio the 
Trustees of the College. 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE — 1875. 

Albon p. Man, Chairman. Joseph Seligman. 

RuFus G. Beardsley. Randolph W. Townsend. 

William Dowd. Jacob D. Vermtlye. 

Eugene Kelly. Alexander S. Webb. 
Albert Klamroth. 

officers op instruction, government, &c. 
Alexander Stewart Webb, LL.D., President. 
Jean Roemer, LL. D., Prof, of the French Language and Literature, 

Vice-President. 
Augustiu Jose Morales, Prof, of the Spanish Language, &c. 
GerardusB. Docharty, LL.D., Prof, ot Mathematics, tfec. 
Charles E. Anthon, LL.D., Prof, of History, &c. 

John G. Barton, LL.D., Prof, of the English Language and Literature. 
Robert O. Doremus, M.D.. LL.D., Prof, of Chemistry, &c. 
Herman J. A. Koerner, Ph. D. , Prof, of Descriptive Geometry and Drawing. 
Adolph Werner, M.S., Prof, of German Language, &c. 
i^}^"^ C. Draper, M.D., LL.D., Prof, of Natural History, &c. 
AltredG. Compton, A.M., Prof, of Mechanics, Astronomy, &c. 
George W. Huntsman, A.M., Prof, of Philosophy. 
James A. Spencer, S. T. D., Prof, of Greek Language, &c. 
Charles G. Hebermann, Ph. D., Prof, of the Latin Language, and Librarian. 
Besides 23 other Professors and Assistants. 

The Commencement of the College is held on Thursday preceding the first of 
July m each year. j i & 

course op study. 
By a resolution of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees, passed 
1^ ebruary 2b, 18/5, there will be hereafter two Collegiate Courses— the Classical 
and the bcientijic; the tormer, when completed to the satisfaction of the Faculty, 
entitlmg the student to the degree e£ A.B., the latter to that of B.S. 



Exc. 97 

In addition to the above there is a Post Graduate Course of Civil Engineering, 
and also a short Commercial Course, for such students of the Introductory Class 
as may desire it, and intend to remain one yem' only. 



UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. 

University Place. Founded January 18, 1836. 

This Institution -was opened for instruction December, 1836. Its Directors 
and Professors are members of the Presbyterian Church, and give their assent, 
as officers of the Institution, to the formularies of the Church. 

Until the reunion, in 1870, of the two largest Presbyterian Churches in the 
United States, the Seminary vras independent of ecclesiastical control ; but to 
further that union, its Directors then agreed to a plan adopted by the General 
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church for all the Seminaries of that Church, in 
granting the Assembly the right of veto upon the appointments of its Pro- 
fessors, and making to it an annual report. 

BOAKD OF DIRECTORS. 

Charles Butler, LL.D., President 

Norman White, Vice-President. 

Ezra M. Kingsley, Treasurer and Gen. Secretary. 

Executive Committee. 

Rev. William Adams, D.D., LLD., D. Williams James, 

Rev. Thomas S. Hastings, D.D., John Taylor Johnston, 

Rev. Robert Russell Booth, D.D., Alfred C. Post, M.D., LL.D. 

Ezra M. Kingsley. 
The Faculty and Lecturers consist of thirteen eminent persons, comprising 
Theologians and Professors of Learning. 



GENERAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE PROTESTANT EPIS- 
COPAL CHURCH, NEW YORK. 

Trustees. — All the Bishops of the American Church ; one Trustee from 
each Diocese ; one additional for every eight clergymen ; one more additional 
for every two thousand dollars contributed, until the same amounts to ten 
thousand dollars, and one for every additional ten thousand contributed. 

The Rev. William G. Farrington, D.D., Orange, N. J., Secretary. 

Henry E. Pierrepont, Esq., Brooklyn, New York, Treasurer. 

The Standing Committee. — The Bishop of the Diocese in which the Semi- 
nary is situated, such other Bishop or Bishops as may be in the City of New 
York at any meeting, the Secretary and Treasurer of the Board, and the Dean 
of the Seminary, together with the Revs. E. N. Mead, D.D., J. H. Price, D.D., 
M. Dix, D.D., W. F. Morgan, T>.I>., L H. Tuttle, D.D., R. M. Abercrombie, 



98 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

D.D., A. B. Beach, D.D., C. H. Hall, D.D., and G. H. Houghton, D.D., and 
Messrs. C. Curtiss, J. C. Garthwaite, A. B. McDonald, S. V. Hoffman, C. 
Livingston, G. M. Miller, H. Drisler, LL.D., J. A. King, and O. Meads, LL.D. 

The Rev. George F. Sey^iour, D.D., Dea7i. 

The Rev. Samuel Buel, D.D., Librarian. 

Number of students in 1875, 68. Number of the Alumni, 825, of whom 153 
are deceased. 

The whole number of students matriculated since 1823, is 1,171. Prior to 
that date, about 20 had been admitted. Total, 1,191. Volumes in the Library, 
about 15,000. 

The Seminary opens on the first Monday in October, and closes on the Satur- 
day next succeeding the Commencement. Trustees meet Thursday, June 
29. Commencement Friday, June 30. 



COLLEGE OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, 

No. 49 West 15th street. 

This Institution, incorporated in 1801, with the privileges of a University, is 
conducted by the Fathers of the Society of Jesus. 

It is a day College, affording the two-fold advantage of a complete collegiate 
and commercial education. 

. There are five distinct departments, the Post-graduate, Under-graduate, 
Grammar, Commercial, and the Preparatory. 

The Collegiate Course of Studies embraces the Greek, Latin, English, French 
or German Languages, Rhetoric, Poetry, Elocution, Histoay, Geography, Myth- 
ology, a complete course of Mathematics, Chemistry, Natural, Intellectual 
and Moral Philosophy. 

The present number of students is between 400 and 500. It has no endow- 
ment ; it is supported by the yearly fee of $G0 for each student. 

II. HuDON, President. 
ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE. 

This Institution is situateed at Fordham, in the 24th Ward of the City of New 
York. It is under the direction of the Fathers of the Society of Jesus. Rev. 
F, Wm. Gockei.n, S.J., President. 

The higher branches of education are taught by eminent professors and 
teachers. The following Fathers devote themselves in a special manner to the 
work of missions: Rev. V. Beaudevin, S.J., and Rev. M. Flynn, S.J. Every 
facihty for gentlemen of the clergy and laity to make private retreats. 

ST. LOUIS SELECT FRENCH COLLEGE. 
228 and 280 West Forty-second street. 
This Institution is under the direction of the Rev. Fathers of Mercy, Rev. 
M. Ron AY, President, with a corps of twelve lay professors. 

MANHATTAN COLLEGE. 
Grand Boulevard and 132d street, Manhattanville. 
Under the direction of the Christian Brothers; Brother Paulian, President; 
Brother Anthony, Director. 



American tract society. 99 

EUTGERS FEMALE INSTITUTE, 
Incorporated in the year 1839, and first located in the Seventh Ward of the City. 
After a very successful career, with the growth of the City, a change was 
made to its present site, opposite the Reservoir, on Fifth Avenue, where it occu- 
pies buildings among the most conspicuous in the city. On April 11th, 1867, 
by Act of the Legislature, the name was changed to the Rutgers Female Col- 
lege, which put it on the same footing as our male colleges throughout the land, 
and gives the right to confer equal degrees. Besides the Collegiate Depart- 
ment, there are the Academic and Elementar .' Departments, in which pupils are 
prepared for the College, It has an average attendance of 150 students per an- 
num. Those in the Collegiate Department receive a thorough classical course. 
It has also a fine Library of 5,000 volumes, and Laboratory with first-class chem- 
ical apparatus. Its rooms are large, well-ventilated, and arranged for the com- 
plete comfort of the students. 

BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 

Rev. Thos, D. Anderson, 
Edward Hale, M.D,, President of the Board. 
J, Irving Burns, Secretary and Treasurer. 
Everett Clapp, J. B, Tallman, 

B. F, Martin, S, T. D., Wm. R. Beal, 

Daniel T. Stevens, Rev. Lyman Cobb, jr., 

D. L. Sturges. 

FACULTY. 

Rev. Thos. D, Anderson, President and Professor of Moral Philosophy. 

Benjamin F. Martin, S.T.D., Professor of Mental Philosophy. 

Albert H. Gallatin, Professor of Chemistry. 

Daniel S. Martin, A.M., Professor of Geology and Natural Science. 

Erastus Everett, A.M., Professor of Latin and Greek Language. 

Miss Adeline W. Earless, Principal and Instructor in History. 

Miss Mary E. Oley, Mathematics. 

Miss Blandina Conant, English Literature and Rhetoric. 

Mile. Louise F. Rostan, Modern Language and Literature. 

Miss Lizzie M. Burns, Department of Fine Arts. 

Miss Florence Hill, Instrumental Music. 

Miss Olivia J. Burns, Academic Department. 



AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY. 

150 Nassau Street. 

This Society was organized May 10, 1825. S. V. S. Wilder, Esq., being 
elected President, and a full Board of otficers, among wiiom were Rev. William 
A. Hallock, D.D., Secretary, Moses Allen, Esq., Treasurer, and Rev. Howard 
Malcolm, Director, now the sole survivors of the first Board, and all of whom 
continue to be identified with the Society. 

Its list of members and directors embraces over 31,000 names, including mem- 
bers from all evangelical denominations. It has issued, exclusive of periodicals, 
9,679 distinct publications, of which 1,733 are volumes. Of these 4,055, includ- 
ing 599 volumes, are issued by the Society's aid at Foreign Mission stations, the 
common salvation being thus printed in 143 languages or dialects. It has 
printed 523,097,338 copies of publications, including 164,379,000 of periodicals 
and 27,035,026 volumes. 



100 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

Its total receipts have been $13,597,589.63, of which $4,328,095.44 were from 
donations and legacies, $8,957,219.50 were from sales, and $312,274.69 were 

from rents. . , . , -r^ . ^.r- • 4. 

It has made cash appropriations in aid of the Foreign Mission press amount- 
ing to $566,637.50, and o-ranted publications to the value of $1,671,800. It has 
performed 4,938 years of missionary colportage, employing about 5,000 men 
whose record shows 10,503,696 volumes sold; 2.780,066 volumes granted; 376,298 
reliffious meetings held or addressed; 11,495,780 family visits made; 6,258,070 
fanfilies conversed with on personal religion, or prayed with; 1,568,495 Protest- 
ant families visited who habitually neglect to attend evangelical preaching; 
919,846 families of Roman Catholics visited; 579,510 Protestant families desti- 
tute of the Bible; and 953,633 families destitute of all religious books except the 
Bible. 

OFFICERS FOR 1875-76, 

Hon. William Strong, L.L.D., Philadelphia, President. 
Rev J. M. Stevekson, D.D., Corresponding Secretnry. 
Rev. W. W. Rand, Publishing Secretary. 
Rev. G. L. Shearer, Financial Secretary. 
O. R. Kingsley, Treasurer. 



MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS. 

Bellevue Hospital Medical College, foot E. Twenty-sixth street. Isaac E. 
Taylor, President; Austin Flint, jr.. Secretary. 

College of Pharmacy of the City of New Tork. Paul Balluff, President. 
Stated meetings, third Thursday of each month, at Is ew York University. 

Eclectic Medical College, 223 E. Twenty-sixth street. Alexander Wilder, 
President; Robert S. Newton, Secretary. 

Homceepathic Medical College, Third avenue, cor. E. Twenty-third street. 
J. AY. Dowliug, Dean; E". S. Bradford, Secretary. 

Neurological Society.— Wm. A. Hammond, President. Meets first Monday 
in each month (except July and August), at 101 E. Twenty-third street. 

New York Academy of Medicine.— Samuel S. Purssel, President. Meets at 
12 W. 31st street. 

New York College of Dentistry, 245 E. Stephen D. Main, 

President. 

New York College of Veterinary Surgeons, 205 Lexington avenue. A. F. 
Laint ard, Sii rgeo n. 

New York Free College for Women, 51 St. Mark's place. Mrs. Hester 
Pendleton, President. 

New York Medical College and Hospital for Women, 187 Second avenue. 
Mrs. R. B. Connolly, President. 

New York Medical and Surgical Society.— Charles M. Allen, M. D., Presi- 
dent; Thomas T. Sabine, M. D., Secretary. 

New York Pathological Society, 101 E. Twenty-third street. George F. 
bhrody. Secretary. Meets second and fourth Wednesdays of each month. 

New York Society of Neurology, &c., 101 E. Twenty-third street. Mere- 
dith Clymer, President. Meets third Monday of each month. 

University Medical College, 426 E. Twenty-sixth street. Alfred C. Post, 
President; Charles Inslee Pardee, Secretary. 



PART V. 



ART, LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC AND MISCELLANEOUS 
SOCIETIES— LIBRARIES, ETC. 

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART. 
No. 128 West Fourteenth Street. 

The movement which resulted in the establishment of the jMuseum of Akt 
was initiated at a public meeting for a consultation on this subject, held on the 
23d day of November, 1869, when a Special Committee of fifty w^as appointed. 
The number of this Committee was increased, and the gentlemen organized the 
Association substantially as it exists at present. 

On the 18th of April, 1870, the Legislature of the State of New York granted 
an Act of Incorporation to this body, by the name of "The Metropolitan 
Museum of Art," to be located in the City of New York, "for the purpose of 
establishing and maintaining in said City a Museum and Library of Art, of 
encouraging and developing the Study of the Fine Arts, and the application of 
Art to manufacture and natural life, of advancing the general knowledge of 
kindred subjects, and to that end of furnishing popular instruction and 
recreation." 

In 1871 an Act was passed by the Legislature of New York, authorizing the 
Department of Parks to raise $500,000, for the erection of a building to receive 
the collections of the Museum, in accordance with which a fire-proof building 
is now being constructed in Central Park, and, it is expected, will be ready for 
occupation in about two years. 

A Collection of interesting Works of Art, presented and belonging to the 
Museum, of the aggregate value of $350,000, are now on exhibition at the 
Douglas Mansion, 128 West Fourteenth street. 

The Loan Collection, consisting of fine Statuary, ancient and modern Paint- 
ings, Ceramics, Porcelains, Enamels, Carvings, Arms, Armor, &c., &c., has 
proved a great success. Numerous objects of value are being constantly otiered, 
and important additions are expected to be placed at the disposal of the Trustees, 
so soon as the new building in the Central Park shall be ready for occupation. 

In order to extend the educational influence of these and other Collections, 
the Trustees have bestowed free admissions to the Museum, on the Art Students 
of the National Academy of Design, and Cooper Institute, which privileges 
have been largely availed of by them. 

Subscribers are divided into four classes: those contributing at one time 
$1,000 and upwards become Patrons in Perpetuity; $500, Fellows in Perpetuity; 
$200, Fellows for Life; Annual Members have recently been added. On pay- 
ment of a yearly subscription of $10, the Annual Member is entitled to invitations 
to all Receptions given by the Officers of the Museum, and to a ticket admitting 
two persons, which may be used by any member of his family, or by friends (non- 
residents), who may be visiting him. All Annual Subscriptions paid prior to 
Jan. 1st, 1876, will expire 31st December, 1876. 



102 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

OFFICERS OF THE MUSEUM. 

(For the year ending May, 1876.) 
John Taylor Johnston, President. 
William C. Prime, Vice-President. 
F. W. Rhinelander, Treasurer. 
WiLLiAii J. HoppiN, Secretary. 
Thomas Blaj^d, Assistant Secretary. 

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN. 

Twenty-third Street, corner Fourth Avenue. 
This building was finished and opened in 1865, at a cost of about $150,000, 
Its peculiar style of architecture, copied from a building on the Rialto, in 
Venice, makes it an object of interest to all strangers. In it are held, twice a 
3^ear, exhibitions of the works of the artists of the National Academy of Design, 
at which time the building is open to all visitors. 

OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL ACADE^^IY OF DESIGN 1876. 

WoRTHiNGTON Whittredge, President. 
Eastman Johnson, Viee-P'esident. 
T. Addison Richards, Corresponding Secretary. 
Alfred Jones, Becwdiiig Secretary. 
E. D. E. Greene, Treasurer. 

COOPER UNION. FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND 

ART. 

This noble Institution, founded by the munificence of Peter Cooper, Esq.,. 
issued its sixteenth annual report in May, 1875. The following is an extract r 
"The reports of the various departments of the Cooper Union show progress, 
enlarged facilities and- increased usefulness as the result of that wise forecast 
and economy with which this Institution has been administered. After six- 
teen years of thoughtful and laborious administration, the trustees, officers and 
teachers, ought to ^eel gratified that the Cooper Union holds no second place 
among those Institutions devoted to the ' Advancement of Practical Science 
and Industrial Art.' " 

The total list of pupils, male and female, amounted to upwards of 2,800 — a 
greater number than any previous year. There are connected with the Insti- 
tution two Schools of Art, one for males and one for females, and a School of 
Science — all presided over by competent instructors. In April last 425 certifi- 
cates of merit were awarded" to 425 scholars. The Exhibition and Commence- 
ment is held in May of each year. 

officers for 1876. 
Peter Cooper, President. 
Wilson G. Hunt, Treasurer. 
Abram S. Hewitt, Secretary. 
Trustees.— Feter Cooper, Daniel F. Tieman, John E. Parsons, Wilson G. 
Hunt, Edward Cooper and Abram S. Hewitt. 

J. C. Zachos, Curator. 
The Free Reading Moom and Library connected with the' Cooper Union is 
open to both sexes from 8 A. M. to 10 P.M. 




cool 1 K I MO^-H(.IIlII SlKFEl 



HISTORICAL SOCIETY AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 103 

NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
Building, Second avenue, corner of Eleventh street. 
This Institution, the just pride of the City, was founded in 1804. It now 
occupies a fine edifice on Second avenue, near St. Mark's Church. It has a 
very valuable Library (open to members for consultation only), ^ and a fine Art 
Gallery. The Society owns and has on exhibition, in its building, the Bryan 
Collection of Egyptian Curiosities and the Crawford Marbles. The rooms are 
not open to the general public, but strangers can visit by obtaining a note of 
introduction from a member of the Society. 

OFFICERS FOR 1876. 

Frederick De Peyster, LL.D., President. 
William Cullen Bryant, LL.D., 1st Vice-President 
James W. Beekman, Esq., M Vice-Pt^esident. 
William J. Hoppin, Foreign Corresponding Secretary. 
Evert A. Duyckinck, Domestic " " 

Andrew Warner, Recording Secretary. 
Benj. H. Field, Treasurer. 
George H. Moore, Librarian. 



GENERAL SOCIETY OF MECHANICS AND TRADESMEN OF THE 
CITY OF NEW YORK— Rooms, 472 Broadway. 

This venerable Institution, founded in 1785, is thus alluded to in an inaugural 
address in 1875, ninety years after it was first established. " Our position among 
the great associations of to-day is well defined. The little organization of 1785 
has become a great power in our Metropolitan society of 1875. Its prosperity 
has kept pace with the marvelous growth of our great City. Its efficiency, 
though not so great as we hope for at a future day, is a subject of congratula- 
tion. Its system of instruction by classes, aided by those powerful adjuncts of 
education, the Public Library and Public Lectures, is comprehensive enough to 
be in keeping with the spirit of the age. Recognizing the relations of skilled 
handicraft to the prosperity of a nation, our Society, among an industrious and 
free people, has done its part to assert and maintain the dignity of labor." 

The Society is now managed by Standing Committees on Finance, Pensions, 
School, Library, Literary and Scientific, having special assigned duties. 

The Apprentices' Library, connected with this Institution, contains about 
50,000 volumes. 

OFFICERS FOR 1876. 

Havilah M. Smith, President. 
Edwin Dobbs, First Vice-President. 
Daniel D. Wright, Treasurer. 
Thomas Earle, Secretary. 
Jacob Schwartz, Librarian. 



AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF TtlE CITY OF NEW YORK. 
Rooms, 22 Cooper Union. 
This Institution was organized January, 1828. Incorporated May 2, 1829, by 
Act of the Legislature, " for the purpose of encouraging and promoting Domes- 



104 NEW YOKK AS IT IS. 

tic Industry in this State and tlie United States, in Agriculture, Commerce, 
Manufactures and the Arts, and any improvements made therein by bestowing 
rewards and other benetits on those who shall make any such improvements, or 
excel in any of the said branches, and by such other ways and means as to the 
said corporation, or the Trustees thereof hereafter mentioned shall appear to be 
most expedient ;" with power to make by-laws, &c. 

presidents elected at different periods. 

James Renwick*. 1859. 

William Hall* 1860 to 1865. 

Horace Greeley* 1866 to 1870. 

William B. Ogden... 1871. 

Prof. F. A. P. Barnard. .. .1872-73. 



WiLLLVM Few* 1838-29. 

John Mason*. .1830-31. 

James Tallmadge* 1832 to 1845. 

Mahlon Dickerson ^ - - .1846-47. 

James TALLMADGEf 1848 to 1853. 

Robert L. Pell 1854 to 1858. 



Orestes Cleveland 1874-75. 



* Deceased, t President Tallmadge died while in office. 

The First Manufacturers' Fair, held under the auspices of the Institute, 
was in October, 1828, at Masonic Hall, Broadway ; since which time forty-four 
other annual fairs have been held, and annual addresses been made by distin- 
guished individuals. The receipts have been large, arising from annual dues 
from members, now numbering about 2,000, and admission fees to the annual 
Fairs. 

The Farmers' Club and the Polytechnic, connected with the American Insti- 
tute, meet weekly for the reading of Papers and discussions on the same. 

The Institute possesses a library of about 10,000 volumes, and there has been 
published monthly and yearly voluminous Transactions of the Institute— now 
discontinued. Courses of lectures have also been inaugurated from year to 
year by order of the Trustees, but of late discontinued. 

In May, 1875, a new Cliarter was passed by the Legislature of the State of 
New York, making changes for the good of the Institute and for the protection 
of its property. 

officers of the AMERICAN INSTITUTE— 1875. 

Orestes Cleveland, President 

C'yrus H. Loutrel, ) 

Thomas Rutter, l Vice-Pvesidenfs. 

J. Groshon Herriot, ) 

Charles McK. Leoser, Recording Secretary. 

Edward Schell, Treasurer. 

John W. Chambers, Clerk. 
Directors.— E^t\\^n C. Ely, George Peyton, Charles H. Clayton, James L. 
Jackson, James Delamater, Charles S. Arthur. 

Boardof Managers.— ChiiYlG&F. Allen, F. D. Curtis, George Whitefield, Alex- 
ander M. Eagleson Walter Shriver, William Rutter, John J. Tucker, William 
H. Gedney A. J Halsey, Peter H. Jackson, Charles Place, Albro Howell, Al- 
fred 1. Ackert, Abraham Lent, Alexander Hadden. 

AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. 

Rooms in Cooper Union, New York. 
This Society was organized October 9, 1851, in the rooms of the Geographical 
and Statistical Libniry, No. 179 Broadway, kept by J. Disturnell, under the name 
of the American Geographical and Statistical Society." 



AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. 105 

Its object, as expressed in the Constitution, was " for the collection and diffu- 
sion of geographical and statistical information, and to consist of ordinary, cor- 
responding and honorary members. " 

The late Hon. George Folsom and DeWitt Bloodgood, Esq., were among its 
founders. In October, 1851, the late Henry Grinnell, Esq., was elected 
President, and served until February, 1852, Avhen the Hon. Geo. Bancroft was 
elected President, and the rooms removed to the University Building, Wash- 
ington square. 

The Society became incorporated under the general Act, in May, 1852, but, on 
the 13th April, 1854, obtained a special charter more in accordance with its 
wishes and views. Its charter has since been amended and name changed to 
*' American Geographical Society," therahj annulling in part, the object of its 
original founders. 

The Rev. Francis L. Hawks, D. D., was elected President, Dec. 7, 1854, and, 
after his death in 1866, Hon. Charles P. Daly was elected President of the 
Society. 

It has published, from time to time, Bulletins of its transactions, among 
which are many valuable papers. In 1851, the late Asa Whitney, Esq., read a 
paper on the proposed Pacific Railway ; in 1852 a paper was read by E. A. Hop- 
kins, Esq., on Paraguay, followed by General Mosquera on New Grenada; on 
the Polar Sea, by the late Dr. E. K. Kane, U. S. N., and on Geographical Sci- 
ence, by Lieut. Matthew F. Maury. Numerous other papers have since been 
read before the Society by distinguished savans, and addresses made by the pre- 
siding officers.* 

Its Library consists of about 11,000 volumes, being rich in geographical and 
statistical works, charts, maps, &c. This library should be made mainly to consist 
of works of reference, and thrown open to students in search of geogi'aphical and 
statistical knowledge. 

officers for 1876. 
Charles P. Daly, President. 
Frederick A. Conkling, ^ 
Francis A. Stout, y Vice-Presidents. 

George W. Cullum, ) 

Charles A. Joy, Foreirpi Cor. Secretary. 
James Muhlenberg Bailey, Domestic Car. Secretary. 
Elial F. Hall, Recording Secretary. 
George Cabot Ward, treasurer. 

council. 
William Remsen, H. M. Morris, 

Theo. W. Dwight, Charles A. Joy, 

T. Bailey Myers, Harlow M. Hoyt, 

W. H. K. Moore, Roswell D. Hitchcock, 

William E. Curtis, S. L. M. Barlow, 

Walton W. Evans, Clarence King, 

Isaac Bernheimer, Isaac I. Hayes, 

Paul Du Chaillu. 

*0fficer8 elected October 9, 185L— Henry Grinnell, P?'mc?e«)',' Henrv E. Pierrepont, Joshua Leav- 
itt, Arch. Kussell, Freeman Hunt, Vice-Pr^esidents ; Charles Congdon, Treasurer ; Charles A. 
Dana, Becordinq Secretary ; S. Dewitt Bloodgood, Foreign Cor. Secretary : John Distumell, DO' 
■mestic Cor. Secretat^ and Agent. 



106 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART. 

This association was organized January 30, 1865, by the adoption of a Consti- 
tution and the framing of By-Laws for its government. " The objects of the 
Association shall be pursued by the following means, viz, : The reading of papers 
on scientific subjects, the discussion thereon, the delivery of Lectures, the pre- 
sentation and preservation of works of art, inventions, improvements in manu- 
factures, machinery, and other subjects promotive of general knowledge, and 
the offering of prizes therefore." Its labors were divided into ten sections, with 
a chairman for each division. 

The Association for several years had rooms provided for their accommoda- 
tion in the Cooper Union, then removed to a new location, and ultimately was 
almost disbanded. In 1874 it was revived, and a course of Lectures begun under 
its auspices, which proved a success, being largely attended by an appreciative 
audience. This season, 1875-76, there will be Lectures delivered by eminent 
men in Rev. Dr. Rogers' Church, corner of Fifth avenue and Twenty-first 
street. Admission free * 

OFFICERS ELECTED IN 1865. 

John H. Grisom, M.D., President. 
Rev. Dr. S. Iren^us Prime, Vice-President. 
Leonard D. Gale, M.D., General /Secretary/. 
Robert M'C. Graham, Treasurer. 
John Disturnell, i/i^'«rm7i. 

OFFICERS FOR 1876. 

President — Rev. S. Iren^eus Prime. D.D. 
Vice-Presidents. — E. P. Rogers, D.D., Howard Crosby, LL.D., Prof. D. 
G. Eaton, Henry Day, James Titus, Rev. B. F. Da Costa, Samuel Sloan, 
John Disturnell, Prof. Elie Charlier. 

Foreign Corresponding Secretary. — Rev. Thomas G. Anderson. 
Domestic Corresponding Secretary. — Clinton Roosevelt, Esq. 
General Secretary. — Walter E. Smith, Esq. 
Treasurer.— E. W. Fisher, M.D. 
Librarian. — Alexander J. Davis, Esq. 

THE NEW MASONIC HALL, 
Corner Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue. 

This magnificent building, recently erected on the corner of Twenty-third 
street and Sixth avenue, opposite Booth's Theatre, occupies a lot 141 feet by 98 
feet 9 inches, and is constructed of light and dark granite. 

The style of architecture is the Renaissance, and the design, as marked out by 
the architect, Mr. Le Brun, is exceedingly chaste and well-proportioned. The 
building is five stories high, and each story distinctly represented in the exterior. 

*As this Association has attained a hi^h rank among kindred scientific societies, we append 
the names of its founders, who first organized in December, 1864, under the title of the " Society 
of Associates of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art:" 

Committee on Organization — John H. Grisom, Henry O'Reilly, Lorenzo Sher- 
wood, Daniel Minthorn, Clinton Roosevelt, O. Macdaniel, John Disturnelly 
James Lorimer Graham, jr., Leonard D. Gale. John A. Fowle. 



IVIASONIC SOCIETIES. lOT 

A pavilion ornamented by columns and surmounted by a quadrangular dome 
fifty feet square at the base and rising 155 feet above the pavement is the main 
feature of Twenty-third street. Curtains embellished with allegorical statuary 
connect this centre compartment with corner pavilions, each 26 feet square at 
the base, rising 95 feet to the top of the main cornice, and capped by a Mansard 
roof. The front, on Sixth avenue, will be in harmony with that on Twenty- 
third street. 

The first story is entirely arranged for stores, three large ones on the street 
and four on the avenue. The main entrance will be on Twenty-third street, in 
the curtain next to Sixth avenue, and is to have a Doric portico. In front of 
this portico will be placed two Masonic columns, surmounted by globes 20 feet 
high, the significance of which will be duly appreciated by Masons. These,, 
together with the statuary and the arms of the Grand Lodge, on the fifth story, 
will form the only indications of the purpose of the building. This entrance 
leads directly by a wide flight of stairs to a large corridor, 20 feet wide, 66 feet 
long, and 30 feet high, on the second floor, from which immediate access is^ 
obtained on the east side to the Grand Lodge Room 84 by 90 feet, and 30 feet 
high, calculated to seat 1,000 persons comfortably, in addition to which a gallery 
across the west end of the room will accommodate 150 persons. The Throne of 
the Grand Master will be in a recess at the east end, with retiring and accommo- 
dation rooms conveniently located on each side. From this corridor is also 
reached, on the west side, the parlor of the Grand Master, tlie parlor and offices 
of the Grand Secretary, the fireproof archive room and others. At the north 
end of the corrider is the stairway leading to the upper stories. The reception 
halls above are 20 feet wide, 68 feet long, and 22 feet high, from which entrance 
is gained on the east side to three tyler's rooms, connected by ante-rooms, with 
three Blue Lodge rooms, each 62 feet long. On the west side of the corridor is 
a large banqueting room, with steward's rooms adjoining. The stairway leads 
next to the fourth story, which is 22 feet high, and contains two Blue Lodge 
rooms, and one Royal Arch Chamber room, the same size as those on the floor 
below. The latter room will be arranged with certain novel and valuable con- 
veniences, and will be complete in every respect. 

The whole of the fifth story will be devoted to the use of the Knights Temp- 
lar, and it is believed this Commandery Hall will be the most complete ever 
constructed, and will greatly increase the effect of the imposing ceremonies of 
the order. 

The first story and all the halls, corridors, and stairways throughout is of the 
best fireproof construction, and a large elevator transverses the building from 
the first to the fifth stories, so that in case of accident the entire building can be 
emptied in five minutes. 

The ground cost $340,000, and the estimated cost of the building is over half 
a million. 



THE GRAND LODGE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK 
Meet annually in the City of New York on the first Tuesday in June. 

There are numerous other Lodges in New York City usually holding meetings 
twice monthly. 



108 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

MASONIC SOCIETIES. 

There are a number of Masonic Lodges of different rank in the City of Kew 
York. The Grand Lodge of the State of New ForA; meets annually in June. The 
•Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters meet annually in New York on the 
1st Tuesday in October. 

Subordinate Lodges meet daily or weekly in different parts of the city. 



SECRET AND BENEFIT SOCIETIES. 
There are a number of Societies under the above denomination that meet 
•daily, weekly and monthly in different parts of the city. 

ODD FELLOWS. 

The Grand Lodge meets at New York, on the Tuesday succeeding the third 
Monday in August. Officers : John W. Stebbins, G. M. , Charles V. Clark, 
G. Secretary. Office, 224 Centre street. 

There are other Orders of a secret character, aiming to promote charity and 
good feeling among their members. 

NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 

This Society was organized May 6, 1805, to commemorate the landing of our 
Pilgrim Fathers on Plymouth Rock (December, 1620), and to promote friend- 
ship, charity, and mutual assistance, and to establish and maintain a library. 

OFFICERS, 1876. 
Isaac H. Bailey, President. 
William Borden, \st Vice-President. 
Daniel F. Appleton, 2d Vice-President. 
Luther B. Wyman, Treasurer. 
L. P. Hubbard, Secretary, 80 Wall street. 
Any descendant of a New Englander, of good moral character, from and after 
the age of eighteen, is eligible to membership. Annual meetings held Dec. 22, 
in the City of New York. 



ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY OF NEW YORK. 

Organized in 1756. Office, No. 3 Broadway. 
officers in 1875-'76. 
Robert Gordon, President. 

Bryce Gray, John Paton, John Sloane, William Lyall, WiUiam Coverly, and 
Alexander Rhind, Managers. 

William J. Ingram, } o..^.taries 
Thomas Maitland, f *^^^^f«^^«- 

Robert Dinwiddle, Treasurer. 



SOCIETIES LIBRABIES. 10^ 

ST. GEORGE'S SOCIETY OF NEW YORK. 

Established in 1786. Office, No. 3 Broadway. 
Henry E. Pellew, President. 
Edward Hill and Briten Richardson, Vice-Presidents. 
Richard J. Curtis, Treasurer. 
Peter Jones and H. G. M. Linten, Secretaries. 
Executive Committee. — Robert Waller, Henry Romilly, R. D. Perry, Jolm G.. 
Dale, John Moulsen, Edward W. Mascord, J. Collin Vincent. 



GERMAN SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 

Office, No. 13 Broadway. 

Frederick Schack, President. 

Wm. a. Schmitthenner, Secretary. 

Theodore E. Buck, Treasurer. 



ST. NICHOLAS SOCIETY. 

Augustus R. Macdonough, Preddent. 

William M. Vermilye, ^ 

Charles R. Swords, I tt-.^ ■pre^i.^.u 

Carlisle Norwood, f »'^^-^^^^^^^^«- 

George W. McLean, J 

Edward Schell, Treasurer. 

John C. Mills, Secretary. 

P. Van Zandt Lane, Assistant Secretary. 
Managers. — D. Henry Haight, Augustus Schell, Benjamin H. Field, James W. 
Beekman, James Breath, Aaron B. Hays, Frederic De Peyster, James M. 
McLean, Hamilton Fish, William Remsen, John Schuyler, Theodore Roosevelt. 



ST. JOHN'S GUILD. 

52 Varick Street. 

Alvah Wiswall, Master; Andrew W. Leggat, Almoner. 



PUBLIC LIBRARIES OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 

The Libraries of America, although not beginning to compare with the Libra- 
ries of Europe, as regards number of volumes or ancient works by eminent au- 
thors, yet still are assuming an importance which makes them rank high as 
helps to knowledge, both ancient and modern. The two great Public Libraries 
of the city are the Astor LiJyrary, and the Lenox Library, the latter just about 
ready to be thrown open to the public. These libraries combined will contain at an 
early date, about 300,000 volumes, comprising works of great merit. The next 
library of importance is the Mercantile Library, with its 160,000 volumes, open to 
subscribers to the Institution; also, the Cooper Union Library and Reading 
Room, open free to the public. The Neio Tm^k Society Lih'ary, the oldest In- 
stitution in the city, contains a large collection of valuable books in the different 
departments of knowledge; open for subscribers. The Young Men's Christian 



110 NEW YOKK AS IT IS. 

Association Library is a free Institution of great merit. The other City Libraries 
are for the most part devoted to some particular branch of knowledge, and open 
for the exclusive benefit of subscribers and their friends. There is great need 
of another universal Public Library, to be centrally situated, and richly en- 
dowed, to contain all the works, ancient and modern, relating to American his- 
tory, together with all American publications, similar to the Congressional Li- 
brary at Washington. 

AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY. 

Bible House, Astor Place. 
Open to visitors daily. This Library contains rare copies of the Bible in dif- 
ferent languages. 

APPRENTICES' LIBRARY. 
472 Broadway. 
This Library, under the management of the General Society of Mechanics and 
Tradesmen, consists of 50,000 volumes, including the Demilt Library Open 
daily from 8 A. M. to 9 P. M. Jacob Schwartz, Librarian. 

AMERICAN INSTITUTE LIBRARY. 

22 Cooper Union, Astor Place. 

Open to members of the Institute from 9 A. M. to 10 P. M. 

This Library now contains 11,000 volumes, including many valuable works of 

reference, and thirty-one scientific journals or magazines, together with the 

leading journals. At the present time it is much neglected, owing in part to the 

want of a full catalogue and a competent librarian. 

AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. 
Cooper Union. 
This Library contains 11,000 volumes and pamphlets, devoted mostly to 
geographical and statistical knowledge, with numerous atlases, maps, charts, 
&e. Open daily to members from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. 

ASTOR LIBRARY, 
Lafayette Place, near Astor Place. 

Founded by the late John Jacob Astor, who granted $400,000 by will at the 
time of his death, in 1848. Since that period Wm. B. Astor has contributed 
upward of $850,000.* Open to the public from 9i A. M. to 5i P. M. The 
Library remains closed during one of the Summer months. The Astor Library 
Building is constructed in the Byzantine style of architecture, richly ornamented 
with brown-stone mouldings and an imposing entablature. The Library room 
is 100 feet in length by 64 in width, and 50 feet in height. 

According to the twenty-sixth annual report of the Astor Library, issued in 
1875, the total number of volumes now in the Library is 150,300; 2,666 books 
having been added during the past year. The number of readers appears to be 
mcreasing, the increase for 1874 being about one-fifth more than the number 

* By his late will, Wm. B. Astor, deceased, has further contributed the sum of $250,000 to the 
Astor Library, making altogether an amount of about $1,000,000. 



LIBRARIES. Ill 

visiting the Library in 1873, The endowment fund of the Library now amounts 
to $778,336, it having been increased from the original donation by contributions 
from the Astor faniily, and by investments from the oiiginal $400,000 by John 
Jacob Astor. In proportion to the whole number of books the Library contains 
a very large number of works of permanent value as books of reference, and as a 
consulting Library it is probably the best to be found in America. 



Vice-Presidents. 



BAR ASSOCL\TIOK 
No. 20 W. 27th Street. 

OFFICERS. 

William M. Evarts, President. 
Samuel J. Tilden, 
Edgar S. Van Winkle, 
Charles W. Sanford, 
Stephen P. Nash, 
James Emott, 
William A. Butler, Corresponding Secretary. 
Mason Young, Recording Secretary. 
Edward Mitchell, Treasurer. 
The report of the Library Committee showed that the Library had been in- 
creased by over 1,000 volumes in the past year, and now contained about 10,000 
volumes. 

This Association, composed of leading Members of the Bar, reviews Muni- 
cipal and State Laws, and suggests amendments to the same. 



COLUMBIA COLLEGE. 

In College Building, E. 49th street, between Madison and Fourth avenue— 
This is a large and valuable Library. 



CITY. 

No. 12 City Hall. 
This Library contains about 3,000 volumes, but is greatly neglected by its 
present managers. 



COOPER UNION. 

Eighth street, corner Fourth avenue. 
This Free Library contains 15,000 bound volumes, 316 periodicals, and 200 
American and Foreign newspapers. Open to the public from 8 A.M. to 10 P.M. 

ECLECTIC. 
Seventeenth street, near Irving place. 

HARLEM. 
2238 Third Avenue. 
Terms, $2.00 per annum. Open from 2 to 7 P.M. 



112 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

LEXOX LIBRARY OF THE CITY OF XEW YORK. 

Incorporated January 20, 1870, by the Legislature of the State of Xew York. 
Sec. 1 provides for nine Trustees, and dechired them to be a body corporate, by 
the name of tlie '' Trustees of the Lenox Library." 

Sec. 2. To receive from the said James Lenox, his collection of manuscripts, 
printed books, engravings and maps, statuary, paintings, drawings, and other 
works of art; also the sum of $300,000, to be used for the establishment of a 
Pubhc Library in the City of New York, and such real estate as he may convey 
for a site for the same, in the 19th ward of the said city, in the vicinity of Cen- 
tral Park, which site, with its appurtenances, the said corporation is hereby 
empowered to take and hold in fee simple, for the purposes of the said Library, 

Since the above princely gift, and the announcement of the founding of the 
Library, several large donations have been offered and accepted by the trus- 
tees; also a second donation has been made by Mr. Lenox of §100,000, to be 
added to the building fund. 

By a late report it appears that " the library building is rapidly approaching 
completion, and will be ready to be occupied at an early day. The necessary 
appurtenances, fittings and furniture, Avith all the details of administration and 
service of the library will soon be provided and settled ; and while a consider- 
able time will be required for the transfer and arrangement of the library and 
various collections, there will be no unnecessary delay in making them acces- 
sible to readers and students, and available to the public, in accordance with the 
design of the founder and the purposes of the institution. 

"The library edifice, which occupies a commanding site on Fifth avenue, 
between Seventieth and Seventy-first streets, is grand in mass though simple in 
construction, and admirably proportioned in the relation of parts to the whole. 
The disposition of the building is ^centre with two projecting wings — the 
object being to secure as much light as possible for the library rooms and 
galleries — an arrangement which has proved entirely successful. 

" The building is 192 feet in length parallel to the avenue, and 114 feet deep 
on each street, with an entrance court between the north and south wings 42 
feet in depth from the front line, and 96 feet long. The main approach is from 
Fifth avenue through two massive gateways andlhe court, then up a wide flight 
of steps to the principal entrance door. The service entrances are in the rear of 
the building, and communicate with Seventieth and Seventy-first streets by a 
passage way which extends from street to street. 

" The library rooms in the south wing communicate directly by circular stairs 
of stone in the piers on both sides, and have been fitted with presses or book- 
cases of iron, the capacity of which for immediate use will accommodate not 
less than eighty thousand volumes. 

" The corresponding rooms in the north wing and galleries of the centre will 
be devoted to the arrangement for exhibition and use of those various collec- 
tions of rare and curious works, objects of art, tfcc, which require extended 
space and special protection against loss or injury. 

" A more extended and ample description of the entire building and its appur- 
tenances, when completed, may be given in a future report, with illustrative 
plan and elevation." 

James Lenox, President, 
Aaron B. Belknap, Secretary. 
George H. Moore, Superintendent. 



LIBRARIES. 113 

LAW LIBRARY. 

Equitable Building, 120 Broadway. 



MEDICAL AND JOURNAL ASSOCIATION. 

107 E. Twenty-eighth Street. 
Open from 9 A.M. to 9 P.M. • 



MOTT MEMORIAL FREE MEDICAL. 

64 Madison Avenue. 

Open from 11 A.M. to 9 P.3L 



NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
Second Avenue, corner E. Eleventh Street. 
Open, from October to April, from 9 A.M. to 9 P.M.: from April to October, 
from 9 A.M. to 6 P.M. 

George H. Moore, Librarian. 

NEW YORK JOURNALISTIC. 

No. 6 Centre street. 



PRINTERS'. 

No. 3 Chambers Street. 
This Library contains 5,000 volumes. Open every Saturday evening. Free, 
except where persons take out books from the Library. 



UNITED STATES POST LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. 

58 Broadway. 



UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. 
University Place, near Eighth Street. 



WASHINGTON HEIGHTS. 
Tenth Avenue, corner West One-hundred-and-fifty-sixth street. 



WOMAN'S. 

38 Bleecker street. 
Terms of membership, $1.50 per annum. Open from 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. 
Mrs. M. Ferrer, Superintendent. 



114 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. 

52 E. Twenty-third Street, 2223 Third Avenue, 492 Grand Street, 134 Bowery, 

and Third Avenue, corner E. Eiglity-sixth Street. 

Open from 8 A.M. to 10 P.M., and Sundays from 2 to 9 P.M. 



NEW YORK LAW INSTITUTE LIBRARY. 

Rooms Nos. 22, 24 and 26 fourth floor, U. S. Court and Post-Office Building. 
Established in 1830. 
Among its founders were Chancellor Kent, James W. Gerard, and a number of 
other gentlemen of distinction. 

OFFICERS, 1875-76. 

Charles O'Conor, President. 

Charles Tracy, \ 

Hon. Samuel Blatchford, >• Vice-Presidents. 

Joseph H. Choate, ) 

Edward H. Owen, Treasurer. 

Aaron J. Vanderpoel, Librarian. 

Wm. M. Evarts, Chairman. 

Com. on Jurisprudence. 

The Library contains about 19,000 volumes, comprising full collections of Law 
Reports, together with Statute Laws of the United States, Great Britain, &c. 

Members of the bar from abroad, while in the city, and Judges of the different 
Courts, are, by the rules of the Institute, entitled to the use of the Library. 



NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY. 

Rooms 07 University Place between 12th and 13th Streets. 

(Founded A. D. 1700; Incorporated A. D. 1772.) 

^ This Library is by far the oldest Institution of its class in the city. For a long 
time the only public library of New Yorlv, it has had from the beginning for 
its supporter*, our most respected and influential families, by whom it is still 
sustamed. Never has the Library been in a more heal i by condition than at the 
present time. " It is p > sessed of a valuable property in its land, building, and 
accumulated store of volumes," now consisting of over 60,000 valuable works on 
almost all departments ot knowledge, periodicals, newspapers, &c. 

The Library is open from 8 A. M. to 6 P. M., and the Reading-room from 8 
A. M. to 10 P. M. 

Persons entitled to the use of the rooms are members, and strangers when reg- 
ularly introduced. 

officers of the society for 1874-75. 
TVwsfees.— Frederick De Peyster, Chairman, Otis D. Swan, Treasurer, 
William J. Hoppin, Secretary, together Avith twelve others. 
Wentworth S. Butler, Librarian. 



LIBRARIES — PLACES OF AMUSEMENT. 115 

MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. 

The Mercantile Library, situated in Astor Place, formerly known as the As- 
tcor Place Opera House, and now called Clinton Hall, was founded in 1820. 

The first meeting was called by Wm. Wood, Esq. , by a notice posted at the 
Commercial Advertiser office, and dated Nov. 3d of that year, to be held on the 
9th at the Tontine Coffee Room House to consider a plan for establishing a Li- 
brary and Reading Room. The call was addressed to the clerks of South street, 
Eront street, Pearl street and Maiden Lane. 

About two hundred persons attended this meeting and it resulted in the adop- 
tion of a constitution on the 27th, and the election of oflicers. 

The Library was opened in February, 1821, at No. 49 Fulton street, with 700 
Tolumes and 150 members. In 1826 the Library was removed to the building of 
Messrs. Harper & Bros, in Cliff street, at which time it contained 6,000 volumes. 

In 1828 a subscription was started among the merchants of New York to raise 
funds to erect a new building for the use of the Library. The new building was 
built on the corner of Beekman and Nassau streets, and was dedicated Nov. 2d, 
1860, under the name of Clinton Hall. 

Twenty years later it was found that the collection of books had become too 
large for the space afforded by Clinton Hall, and it therefore became necessary 
to provide other quarters. 

After a long contest between two factions, one favoring removal up town and 
the other opposing it, the Astor Place Opera House was purchased and fitted up 
and the Lib ary removed into it in 1854. From this time its present prosperity 
began to date. It now contains 160,000 volumes, and in the number of its books 
ranks as the fourth library in size in the United States. The reading room is 
furnished with over 450 newspapers and magazines. The executive force num- 
bers twenty odd clerks under the charge of the Librarian, Mr. W. T. Peoples. 

The Library is open from 8 A. M. to 9 P. M., and the total number of persons 
entitled to its use is over ten thousand. 



PLACES OF AMUSEMENT. 

Academy of Music Fourteenth st., cor. Irving place. 

Anatomical Museum 688 Broadway. 

Booth's Theatre Twenty third st. cor. Sixth av. 

Bowery Theatre 46 Bowery. 

Centennial Concert Garden 831 Sixth av. 

Chickering Hall Fifth av. cor. 18th st. 

Colosseum Broadway, cor. Thirty-fifth st. 

Darling's Opera House 115 West Twenty-third st. 

Eagle Theatre Sixth av. , junction Broadway. 

Fifth Avenue Theatre _. Twenty-eighth st., near Broadway. 

Grand Opera House Twenty-third st., cor. Eighth av. 

Gilmore's Concert Garden Fourth av. and Twenty-sixth st. 

Globe Theatre 728 Broadway. 

Great Double Circus Foot Houston st., E. R. 

Lyric Hall 723 Sixth av. 

Lyceum Theatre Fourteenth st. and Sixth av. 

Metropolitan Museum of Art.. .128 West Fourteenth st. 
Metropolitan Theatre 585 Broadway. 



116 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

Museum op Anatomy 665 Broadway. 

New Opera House 

NiBLO's Theatke _. --- .Broadway, cor. Prince st. 

Olympic Theatre 624 Broadway. 

Parisian Varieties East Sixteenth St., near Union sq. 

Park Theatre Cor. Broadway and Twenty-second st, 

Steinway Hall Fourteenth st. near Fourth av. 

Third Avenue Theatre Between Thirtieth and Thirty-first sts. 

Theatre Comique 514 Broadway. 

TivoLi Theatre Eighth st. , near Third av. 

Tony Pastor's Metropolitan 585 and 587 Broadway. 

Union Square Theatre Union Square. 

Wallack's Theatre 844 Broadway, cor. Thirteenth st. 

Wood's Museum . Broadway, cor. Thirtieth st. 



CLUB HOUSES. 

American Jockey, 22 East 27th street. Nassau Boat, 31 Nassau street. 

Arcadian, 52 Union square. New York, 5 West 25th street. 

Army and Navy, 21 West 27th street. N. Y. Athletic, 1309 Broadway. 
Atlanta Boat Club, East 132d. street, comerlN. Y. Caledonian, 118 Sullivan street. 

Fourth avenue. N. Y. College Boating Association, 19 Lex* 
Blossom, 129 Fifth avenue. ington avenue. 

Boulevard, Boulevard, cor. West 104th street. N. Y. Press Club, 6 Centre street. 

Century, 109 East 15th street. N. Y. Yacht, 22 East 27th street. 

Columbia Yacht, foot West 57th street. Olympic Athletic, 6 East 28th street. 

Free Masons', 58 West 22d street. Palette, 7 East 22ci street. 

German, 13 West 24th street. Kepublican, 211 Fourth avenue. 

Gotham, Broadway, corner East 14th street. St. Nicholas, 8 West 25th street. 

Harlem Yacht, Port Morris. St. George's Cricket, 15 Broadway. 

Harmonie, 45 West 42d street. Sorosis, 162 East 38th street. 

Knickerbocker, 249 Fifth avenue. Standard, 149 W^est 42d street. 

Lotos, 2 Irving place. Travellers', 124 Fifth avenue. 

Manhattan, 96 Fifth avenue. Union, 1 West 21st street. 

Manhattan Yacht, foot East 89th street. Union League, 34 East 26th street. 

Merchants', 108 Leonard street. Xavier Union, 49 West 15th street 
Young Men's Democratic, 51 Exchange place. 



CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 

Organized in April, 1768. 
Rooms, No. 63 William Street, New York. 
The objects of the Association were expressed by its founders as follows : 
"Whereas, mercantile societies have been found very useful in trading cities 
for promoting and encouraging commerce, supporting industry, adjusting dis- 
putes relative to trade and navigation, and procuring such laws and regulations 
as may be found necessary for the benefit of trade in general." 
Annual Election, first Thursday in May of each year. 

OFFICERS, 1875. 

Samuel D. Babcock, President. 
James M. Brown, 1st Vice-President. 
George W. Lane, 2d Vice-President. 
Francis S. Lathrop, Treasurer. 
George Wilson, /Secretary. 



COMMERCIAL ASSOCIATIONS, ETC. 117 

Court of Arbitration of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New 

New York. 

ESTABLISHED BY ACT OP THE LEGISLATURE, APRIL 29, 1874. 

Sessions of this Court are held daily at the rooms of the Chamber of Com- 
merce, No. 63 William street, and at the office of the Arbitrator, No. 229 
Broadway, for the hearing and prompt settlement of controversies, disputes 
and matters of difference arising among merchants, shipmasters and others 
within the port of New York. 

Parties may submit their controversies to this court, whether members of 
the Chamber of Commerce or not. 

Blank forms for the submission of causes, and other information, may be ob- 
tained gratis on application to the Clerk, at the rooms of the Chamber. 
Hon. Enoch L. Fancher, Arbitrator, 
George Wilson, Arbitration Clerk. 



MARITIME ASSOCIATION OF THE PORT OF NEW YORK. 

Rooms, 66 Beaver and 113 Pearl street, Organized, February, 1873, for the 
protection of the maritime interests. A Reading Room is attached 
for the use of its members. 

officers, 1875. 
James Henry, President. 
A. H. Brown, Treasurer. 
A. J. Maguire, Secretary. 



AMERICAN SHIPMASTERS' ASSOCIATION. 

Room, 37 William street. 
T. B. Bleecker, Jr., President. 
A. G. Montgomery, Vice-President. 
W. H. H. Moore, Treasurer. 
T. W. Ellisen, Secretary. 

COAL AND IRON EXCHANGE. 

Corner Cortlandt and Church streets ; office of the Delaware and Hudson 

Canal Company. 



NEW YORK PRODUCE EXCHANGE. 

Cor. Whitehall and Pearl Streets. Organized, 1861. 
Benjamin W. Floyd, President. 
Charles Spear, Vice-President. Edward W. Mascord, Secretary. 

Wm. H. Philips, Treasurer. S. H. Grant, Superintendent. 



NEW YORK COTTON EXCHANGE. 

Hanover Square. 

Incorporated, April 8, 1871 

To promote the cotton trade in the City of New York. 



118 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

OFFICERS, 1875. 

Henry Hentz, President. 
James F. Wenman, Vice-President. 
Walter M. Miller, Treasurer. 
Edward Leverich, Secretary. 



IMPORTERS' AND GROCERS' BOARD OF TRADE, 

87 Wall Street. 
Incorporated, March 28, 1872. 
George W. Lane, President. 
Solan Humphreys, ] 
B G. Arnold, ! ^^. p..,/^.«/. 

H. Farrington, f ^^^^-^^^s««^^f«- 

D. M. TURNURE, J 

William Neilson, Secretary, 



THE BOARD OF TRADE, 

Manufactures and Agriculture, ot" the City and State of New York. 

Rooms 17 and 19 Broadway. Organized in 1874; Incorporated in 1875. 

OFFICERS for 1875-76. 

George Opdyke, Esq., President. 

Vice-Presidents. — G. W. Chater Clarke, H. W. Wickham, Geo. T. Hope,. 
F. A. Potts. 

Wallace P. Groom, Actuary and Secretary. 

Executive Committee. — George Opdyke, Chairman; Sinclair Tousey, American; 
News Co. ; Edward A. Boyd, Plate Glass Importer; I. V. Carpenter, Evans, 
Peake & Co., Dry Goods IVIerchants; W. H. Dannat, Dannat & Bro., Lumber ;. 
J. W. Decastro, Decastro & Donner Sugar Refining Company; Edward Frith, 
Sanderson Bros. & Co., Metal Importers; Albert G. King, Geo. King & Son, Fur 
Importers; Joseph Seligman, J. & W. Seligman & Co., Bankers; Fred. Taylor, 
Fred. Butterfield & Co., Dry Goods Importers; Jas. T. Van Rensselaer, F, B. 
Nicol & Co., China and Glass Importers; Richard Young, Young, Ladd & 
Coffin, Perfume Importers and Manufacturers, 

This Board or Association consists of members and Subscribers interested in 
the trade, manufactures and agriculture of the City and State of New York. 

The objects of the Board are the originating and promoting measures for the 
benefit of trade, agriculture and manufactures in the City and State respectively; 
the collection and distribution of statistical and other information of importance 
to traders, manufacturers and agriculturists. 



NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE. 

No. 10 Broad Street. Founded, 1792. 
George W. Mclean, President. B. Ogden White, Secretary, 

Brayton Ives, Vice-President. M. A. Wheelock, Chairman. 

D. C. Hays, Treasurer. James Mitchell, Vice-Chairman^ 

William Weeber, Boll Keeper. 



UNITED STATES CUSTOM HOUSE OFFICERS ETC. 11^ 

NEW YORK GOLD EXCHANGE. 

No. 14 New Street. Organized, 1864. 
James B. Colgate, President. W. J. Hutchinson, Second Vice-Pres. 

E. T. Bragaw, First Vice-President. Wm. P. Wescott, Secretary. 
R. L. Edwards, Treasurer. 



UNITED STATES COLLECTORS' OFFICE— NEW YORK. 

Wall Street, between William and Hanover Streets. 
Chester A. Arthur, Collector. 
Charles P. Clinch, Assistant- Collector. 
Samuel G. Ogden, Auditor and, Acting Dislfg Agent. |. -i j. T^• 
Samuel J. Jacobs, Assistant- Auditor. \ 

Wm. D. Robinson, Cashier. \ oa t\- • • 
James Hoffman, Asst. ■ Cashier. \ '^^ JJivision. 
John J. Osborne, Deputy- Collector, 3d Division. 
Richard Wynkoop, do. do. 4th do, 
W. A. Morris, do. do. 5th do. 

Benj. F. Wyman, do. do. 6th do. 
N. G. Williams, do. do. 7th do. 
W ^.Brov^n, Deputy ad int., 8tli do. 
Dudley F. Phelps, Deputy CoFtor, 9th do. 
John R. Lydecker, J^. Deputy Col. and Storekeeper of the Port, 10th 

Division. 
Deputy Collectoi's. — Samuel M. Blatchford, James Tanner, W. F. Norris, H. 
C Manning, S. T. Maddox, Deputy Collector-at- Large ; Geo. K. Leet, Assistant 
Collector at Jersey City. 

NAVAL OFFICE. 

A. H. Laflin, Naval Officer. 

Silas W. Burt, Comptroller and Special Deputy. 

E. W. B. Canning, Deputy. 

Wm. A. Jones, " 

J. M, Comstock, Chief Entry Clerk. 

A. W. Green, Chief Liquidating Clerk, No. 1. 

T. O'Meara, " " " No. 3. 

J. J. Couch, Chief Warehouse Clerk. 

T. Hays, Auditor. 

H. W. Gomley, Chief Correspondence Clerk. 

SURVEYOR'S OFFICE, 

Custom-House Building. 
George H. Sharpe, Surveyor. 
James S. Benedict, Special Deputy. 
Edward F. Burton, ] 

Jacob Sharpe, J 

Henry Gaines, Chief Measurer of Vessels. 

E. C. DeLong, Inspector in Charge of Departure Boom. 

Alfred Mabie, Boarding Office at Barge Office. 



120 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

UNITED STATES ASSISTANT TREASURER'S OFFICE, 

Wall, corner Nassau Street. 

(Otfice hours, from 10 A. M. to 3 P. M.) 

Thomas Hilliiouse, Assistant Treasurer. 

Charles H. Patterson, Deputy Treasurer. 

William G. White, Cashier. 

David G. Caywood, Superintendent of Building. 



UNITED STATES ASSAY OFFICE AT NEW YORK, 
No. 30 and 33 Wall Street. 
Thomas C. Acton, Saperintendent. 
Herbert G. Torrey, Assayer. 
Andrew Mason, Melter and Refiner. 
J. M. Floyd, Chief Clerk. 
Gold and silver bullion, in amounts not less than $100, received on deposit, 
and returns made in coins or stamped bars, at the option of the owners. Vis- 
itors are admitted to witness the operation of the office, on Wednesdays, be- 
tween 10 A. M. and 12 M. 

PENSION AGENCY. 

Office, Exchange Place, cor. Hannover Street. 
Jacob M. Patterson, Jr., Agent. 



UNITED STATES NAVY PAY DIRECTOR. 

Office, 29 Broadway. 
George F. Cutter, Disbursing Officer. 



UNITED STATES SHIPPING COMMISSIONER. 

Office, 187 Cherry Street. 
C. C. Duncan, Commissioner. 

INTERNAL REVENUE OFFICERS. 

S2d District— First, Second and Fourth Wards. Marshall B. Blake, 

Collector, 83 Cedar Street. 

2d District— Third, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth 
Wards. Max Weber, Collector, 395 Canal Street. 

M District— Seyenth, Tenth, Eleventh, Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Seven- 
teenth Wards. Joseph Archbold, Collector, 9 Seventh Street, cor. Third 
Avenue. 

^th Districtr— Twelfth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first and 
Twenty-second Wards. C. R. Coster, Collector, 1296 Broadway. 



PART VI. 

RELIGIOUS AND BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS. 

THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY— Rooms, Bible House. 

This Institution was formed in 1816, for the sole object of increasing the 
circulation of the Holy Scriptures without note or comment. Its entire work 
is essentially gratuitous. It is thoroughly unsectarian, circulating only the com- 
monly received version in English, and the most faithful translations in other 
languages and in foreign lands, and everywhere helping the poor to procure and 
own the Bible. It is printing and circulating the Scriptures in more than fifty 
different languages, and is usually at the sole expense of publishing all new 
translations by American missionaries and American scholars as soon as their 
manuscript is ready for the press. It has also published, at great expense, the 
entire Bible in raised letters, for the blind. Its issues of the Bible, and Testa- 
ments, and Portions, are in almost every variety of size and style of binding. It 
sells at the cost of manufacture to all who wish to buy, and responds, to the 
measure of its ability, to all applications for grants. Its issues for the 59th 
fiscal year, ending March 31, 1875, were 926,900 volumes. The value of the 
books donated in the year was $94,912.83, and the appropriations in money for 
Bible distribution in foreign lands were $69,441.33. The total receipts from all 
sources for the year were $577,569.80. 

Since its organization, the Society has issued 31,893,882 volumes, and its 
aggregate receipts have been $16,701,944.17. 

The present Bible House is located on an open square, bounded by Third and 
Fourth avenues, Astor place and Ninth street. The building covers the entire 
square — about three-quarters of an acre — and is six stories high. It was erected 
in 1853, at a cost of about three hundred thousand dollars, and is the result of in- 
dividual subscriptions for that especial purpose. The income from the rental of 
that portion of the building not occupied for the Society's own uses is appro- 
priated to payment of the salaries and expenses of the executive departments. 

The aggregate number of persons engaged in the service of the Society, in its 
manufacturing department, which includes the printing, electrotyping, proof 
reading and bindery, does not vary much from four hundred. 

The government of the Society is intrusted to a board of managers, consisting 
of thirty-six laymen, one-fourth of whom go out of office each year, but are re- 
eligible. The executive officers are appointed by the board of managers, and 
standing committees of the board are annually appointed to supervise and direct 
the various departments of the Society's work. The committee on versions, 
which has the oversight of the textual correctness of the Society's issues, is 
composed of seven of the most learned clergymen of the country, who act as 
representatives of the several Christian denominations which co-operate with 
the society. The committees on finance, publication, and legacies, are com- 
posed of laymen only, and the committees on distribution and agencies com- 
prise both clergymen and laymen. 

The Society has about 2,000 auxiliaries, scattered through every State and 
Territory of the Union, through whom, under the supervision of its district 



122 NEW YOKK AS IT IS. , 

superintendents, is effected the greater part of Bible distribution in this country. 
Tliese auxiliaries purchase books at cost for sale or distribution within their 
respective limits, and when unable to buy, are furnished with them gra- 
tuitously. 

OFFICERS FOR 1875-76. 

William H. Allen, LL.D., Philadelphia, President. 

Thirty Vice-Presidents. 

"Rev. Joseph Holdicii, D.D. ; Rev. Edward W. Gilman, D.D., Secretaries- 

Rev. Alexander McLean, D.D., Treasurer. 

Andrew L. Taylor, Assistant Treasurer. 

Caleb T. Rowe, General Agent. 

AMERICAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 

Rooms, 33 Bible House, Astor Place. 
This Association, first formed by persons of the Congregational, Presbyterian^ 
Associate Reformed, and Reformed Dutch Churches, in May, 1820 ; incorpor- 
ated, February 6, 1871, is now the organ of the Congregational Churches. The 
object is "to assist congregations that are unable to support the Gospel Minis- 
try, and to send the Gospel to the destitute witliin the United States." During 
the 49th year of its operations (1875) it sustained in thirty-three States and 
Territories 1)52 Missionaries, laboring in more than 2,000 congregations, or 
missionary districts. Expenditure, $296,000. It has State Auxiliaries in Maine, 
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New 
York and Ohio. Thirty dollars constitute a life member, and one hundred 
dollars a life director. 

' OFFICERS, 1875-76. 

Theodore D. Woolsey, D.D., LL.D., New Haven, Conn., President. 
Thirty-four Vice-Presidents and fifty Directors. 

William Henry Smith, Esq., Treasurer. 

George S. Coe, Esq., Auditor. 

Rev. David B. Coe, D.D., ) 

Rev. Alexander II. Clapp, D.D., y Secretaries for Corresiiondence. 

Rev. Henry M. Storrs, D.D., ) 

Austin Abbott, Esq. , Recording Secretary. 

AMERICAN BOARD OP COMMISSIONERS FOR FOREIGN MIS- 
SIONS. 
Instituted in 1810.— Room, No. 39 Bible House. 

The object of the Board is to propagate the Gospel among the unevangelized 
nations and communities, by means of preachers, catechists, schoolmasters, and 
the press. 

This Board has under its care numerous missions and stations among differ- 
ent nati ns, where missionaries are at work. A late report of their doings says : 
''Heathenism, Avhether in pagan or papal lands, entrenched in the native de- 
pravity of the human heart, buttressed about with forms and usages and insti- 
tutions consecrated by the arts of a crafty priesthood and the traditions of 
generations, involving the entire intellectual and social life from infancy to the 
grave, yields but slowly to the missionary effort, but it yiekU. The gain in 



PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL INSTITUTIONS. 12^ 

church membership is steadily on the increase in Central, Eastern and Western 
Turkey, in the Zula Mission, the Mahvatta Mission, the Ceylon Mission, the 
Foochow Mission, the North China Mission, as well as in Japan, &c. The work 
in Austria and Spain is also encouraging, as well as in other parts of the world.'" 

OFFICERS, 1875-"76. 
Mark Hopkins, D.D., LL.D., President. 
Hon, William E. Dodge, Vice-President. 
Prudential Committee. — Hon. Alpheus Hardy, Augustus C. Thompson, D.D.,. 
Ahner Kingman, Esq., James M. Gordon, Esq., Ezra Farnsworth, Esq., Ed-^ 
mund K, Alden, D.D., J. Russell Bradford, Esq., Joseph S. Ropes, Esq., Prof. 
Egbert C. Smyth, D.D. 

Rev. Selah B. Treat, N, G. Clark, D.D., Secretaries for Correspondence. 

Rev, John O. Means, D.D., Recording Secretary. 

Langdon S. Ward, Treasurer, No. 1 Somerset Street, Boston. 

NEW YORK CITY AGENCY. 

Rev. C. p. Bush, D.D., Dist. Sec, 39 Bible House, Astor Place. 



PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL INSTITUTIONS. 

DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL, 

CHURCH. 

Rooms, Nos. 22 and 23 Bible House. 

Organized by the General Convention in 1821, and incorporated by the State- 
of New York, May 13, 1846. 

Members. — The Society is considered as comprehending all persons who are 
members of this Church. 

Board of Missions, Hoio Appointed. — The General Convention, which repre- 
sents the whole Church, appoints at every Triennial Meeting, a Board of Clerical 
and Lay Members, who, together with the Bishops of the Church, constitute the 
Board of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of 
America. 

Functions oftTie Board. — To the Board of Missions is intrusted the supervision 
of the general missionary operations of the Church, with power to establish 
Missionary stations, appoint Missionaries, make appropriations of money, and 
regulate the conducting of Missions. The Board meets once a year. 

Home Missions to Colored People. — There exists, during the will of the Board of 
Missions, and by its appointment, the " Commission of Home Missions to 
Colored People," to which is committed the religious and other instruction of 
the freedmen. 

Indian Commission. — There exists, by appointment of the Domestic Committee, 
acting by request of the General Convention and under instructions from the 
Board of Missions, an Indian Commission, charged with the oversight and care 
of the Indian Missionary work of the Church. 

Woman's Auxiliary. — The Woman's Auxiliary, organized by the secretaries of 
the several departments at the instance of the Board of Missions, aids the work 
of the Board of Missions in all its departments. Domestic, Foreign, FreedmeU;^ 
and Indian. 



124 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

These are the several departments of the work of the Board of Missions, 
which Board, as above set forth, acts in behalf of the Domestic and Foreign 
Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of 

A TVip'pir**! 

The next Annual Meeting of the Board of Missions will be held in the City of 
Philadelphia, in October, 1876. 

Committee for Domestic Missions.— Rt. Rev. Hokatio Potter, D.D., LL.D., 
Chairman; Revs. Morgan Dix, D.D., George Leeds, D.D., Henry C. Potter, 
D.D., K H. Schenck, D.D.; Messrs. Cyrus Curtiss, G. N. Titus, B. B. Sher- 
man, and E. T. Gerry. Rev. A. T. Twing, D.D., Secretary and General Agent, 
22 Bible House; Rev. C. K Chandler, D.D., and Rev. T. A. Starkey, D.D., 
Associate Secretaries and General Agents; Lloyd W. Wells, Esq., Treasurer, 
22 Bible House, New York. Stated meetings, third Monday of each month. 

Committee for Foreign Missions.— Ri. Rev, Horatio Potter, D.D., LL.D., 
Chairman; Revs. John Cotton Smith, D.D., H. Dyer, D.D., Benjamin I. 
Haight, D.D., LL.D.; Messrs. Lewis Curtis, Frederick S. Winston, Stewart 

Brown, Lemuel Coffin, and James M. Brown. , Secretary 

and General Agent, 23 Bible House; Rev. S. D. Denison, D.D., Honorary Secre- 
tary, 23 Bible House; James M. Brown, Esq., Treasurer, 23 Bible House, New 
York. Stated meetings, fourth Wednesday in each month. 

PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CITY MISSION SOCIETY. 

Incorporated 1833. 

The Bishop, ex-officio, President. 
Rev. C. T. Woodruff, Superintendent. 
R. S. Holt, treasurer, 57 Water street. 

PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL TRACT SOCIETY. 

The Bishop, President. 

J. Pott, Treasurer and Agent., 5 and 13 Cooper Union. 

NEW YORK BIBLE AND COMMON PRAYER-BOOK SOCIETY. 

H. Bruce, Pemi'dirtg Secretary. 

J. Pott, Treasurer and Agent, 5 andl3 Cooper Union. 

SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF RELIGION AND LEARNING. 

The Bishop of the Diocese, ex-officio, President. 

T. W Ogden, Secretary. 

R. M. Harrison, Treasurer, 110 Broadway. 

Rev. G. F. Seymour, D.D., Superintendent of the Department of Learning. 

PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL SOCIETY FOR SEAMEN, NEW YORK. 

The Bishop, ex-officio. President. 

H. P. Marshall, Treasurer, at Seamen's Bank, corner of Wall and Pearl 
streets. 

SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE DESTITUTE BLIND. 

No. 219 West Fourteenth street. Incorporated 1868. 

Visitor, the Bishop ; Treasurer, H. Manuel, 31 Wall street. 



PEESBYTEKIAN INSTITUTIONS MISSIONS, ETC. 125 

BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 

Mission House, 23 Centre Street. Organized in 1833. 

This Foreign Missionary Society, wliicli has been in successful operation for 
more than forty years, selected Africa and the populous regions of Asia for their 
extended mission fields — China, Japan, Persia, Asia Minor, South An^erica and 
other localities were early selected, and have proven to be fields of unsurpassed 
promise. According to the Thirty-eighth Annual Report, for 1875, all the 
above missionary fields were occupied by zealous missionaries, both male and 
female, from whom reports are forwarded to the parent society. There are 
also auxiliary societies, in different parts of the United States, that aid in this 
great work. 

OFFICERS FOR 1875-76. 

Rev. William Adams, D.D., President. 

" John D. Wells, D.D., Vice-President. 

*' John C. Lowrie. ) 

'* David Irving, y Secretaries. 

" Frank F. Ellinwood, ) 
William Rankin, Esq., Treasurer. 

BOARD V i^^ HOME MISSIONS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 

Mission House, 23 Centre Street, New York. Organized in 1870, under its 

present Management. 

To this Board is committed the work of aiding feeble churches in the United 
States of America in the support of their ministers; of sending out and support- 
ing missionaries to preach the gospel, and of planting churches in new and des- 
titute sections of the country. 

OFFICERS, 1875-76. 
Rev. James O. Murray, D.D., President. 
" Henry Randall, D.D., ) ^ o * • 
" Cyrus Dickson, D.D., \ ^^' Secretaries. 
O. D. Eaton, Treasurer. 
Edw. a. Lambert, Recording Secretary. 

BOARD OF THE CHURCH ERECTION FUND OF THE PRESBYTE^ 

RIAN CHURCH. 
Office, No. 23 Centre Street. 

According to the Fifth Annual Report, for 1875, the number of churches 
erected during the year by aid of the Board was 153, located in 29 States and 
Territories, and under the care of 84 Presbyteries. • 

officers for 1875-'76. 

Rev. Joseph Fewsmith, D.D., President. 
Rev. John Hall, D.D., Vice-President. 
Rev. H. R. Wilson, D.D., Cor. Secretary. 
J. P. Crosby, Esq. , Recording Secretary. 
Nathan Lane, Esq., Treasurer. 



126 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS OF THE REFORMED CHURCH IN 

AMERICA. 

Rooms, 34 Vesey Street. 

OFFICERS FOR 1875. 

Rev. Wm. H. Steele, D.D., President. 
Sanford Cobb, Esq., Vice-President 
Rev. C. L. Wells, Recording Secretary. 
Rev. J. M. Ferris, Corresponding Secretary. 
Mr. Gamaliel Smith, Treasurer. 
BOARD OF DOMESTIC MISSIONS OF THE REFORMED CHURCH IN 

AMERICA. 
Rooms, 34 Vesey Street. 
OFFICERS FOR 1875-76. 
Mr. S. R. W, Heath, President. 
Rev. Paul D. Van Cleef, D.D., Vice-President. 
Rev. O. E. Cobb, Recording Secretary. 
Rev. Jacob West, D.D., Corresponding Secretary. 
Mr. John R. Smith, Treasurer. 



BAPTIST CITY MISSION. 

76 East Ninth Street. 

Baptist City Mission, 1870, 76 East Ninth Street. Organized.— The objects 
of the Society are clmrch extension, mission and Sunday-school work of the 
-Southern N. Y. Baptist Association. S. S. Constant, Esq., President; C. T. 
Evans, Secretary; A. Denike, Treasurer. 

American Baptist Publication Society. — New York Branch, 76 East Ninth 
Street. — G. M. Vanderlip, Depositary ; Rev. James Waters and Rev. J. S. 
Backus, D.D., District Secretaries. 

AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY. 

Rooms, 150 Nassau Street. 
Organized in 1832. The object of this Society is to promote the preaching of 
the Gospel in North America, through its own exertions and the aid of auxiliary 
Societies of the Baptist denomination. 

OFFICERS of the SOCIETY. 

Hon. Samuel A. Crosier (Penn.), President. 
Joseph B. Hoyt, Esq., Treasurer. 
Nathan Bishop, LL.D., Corresponding Secretary. 
Rev. D. B. Jutten, Recording Secretary. 
AMERICAN AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. 
Rooms, 150 Nassau Street. 
Organized in 1836. The object of the Society is to procure and circulate the 
most faithful versions of the Holy Scriptures in all languages throughout the 
world. 

officers for 1875-76. 
Hon. Peter Balen (New Jersey), President. 
A. B. Capwell, Esq. , and others, Vice-Presidents. 
N. D. Ward, Esq., Secretary and Treasurer. 
Rev. George E. Horn, Recording Secretary. 



METHODIST EPISCOPAL INSTITUTIONS. 127 

MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 

Rooms, 805 Broadway. 
Incorporated April, 1839. Its objects are charitable and religious; designed 
to diffuse more generally the blessings of education and Christianity, and to pro- 
mote and support Missionary Schools and Christian Missions throughout the 
United States and Territories, and also in foreign countries. 

OFFICERS, 1876. 
Rev. Bishop E. S Janes, President. 
John P. Durbin, D.D., Honorary Secretary. 
Robert L. Dashiell and John M. Reid, Secretaries. 
Reuben Nelson, Treasurer. 
David Terry, Recording Secretary. 

METHODIST BOOK CONCERN. 

Established for the purpose of distributing books and tracts throughout the 
United States ; the income of which, after deducting expenses, is appropriated 
to benevolent purposes. Rooms, 805 Broadway, New York. 

Rev. Reuben Nelson, D. D. and J. M. Phillips, Esq., Book Agents. 

SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION. 

Office, 805 Broadway. 

Bishop Janes, President. 
J. H. Vincent, D.D., Cor. Secretary. 
W. H. DePuy, D.D., Recording Secretary. 
. D. Denham, Jr., Treasurer. 

BOARD OF EDUCATION. 

Office, 805 Broadway. 
(Officers elected by the Board.) 
Bishop Janes, President. 
Rev. C. A. Holmes, D. D., Secretary. 
Oliver Hoyt, Esq. , Treasurer. 

AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. 

Rooms, 56 Reade Street. 
Organized in 1865. The aim and object of this Association is to preach the 
Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with the almost friendless 
slaves. Since emancipation, it has devoted its main efforts to preparing the 
freedmen for their duties as citizens and Christians in America and as mission- 
aries in Africa. Also to aid and benefit the Chinese in America, and co-operate 
with the Government in its humane and Christian policy toward-s the Indians, 

OFFICERS, 1875-76. 
Hon. E. S. ToBEY (Boston), President. 
Fifty-two Vice-Presidents. 

Rev. George Whipple and Rev. M. E. Story, Secretaries. 
Edgar Ketchum, Esq., Treasurer. 



128 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

NATIONAL TEMPERANCE SOCIETY. 

Rooms, 58 Reade Street. 
This Society was organized in 1865 in the cause of Temperance, and has 
printed and circulated over 215,635,356 pages of temperance literature dunng 
the past ten years. It has its agencies in every State m the Union, and is diffus- 
ing a sound temperance literature all over the world. 
OFFICERS FOR 1875-76. 
Hon. Wm. E. Dodge, President. 
T, T. Sheffield, Treasurer. 
J. N. Stearns, Cor. Secretary and Puhlishing Agent. 



YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. 

OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 

Was founded in June, 1853, with a membership of 1,200; its membership is 
now about 3,500. 

The building was erected in 1869, at a cost of $485,000, and is held and man- 
aged by a Board of nine Trustees; the affairs of the Association are under the 
management of a Board of twenty Directors, who are elected by the members, 
and are persons in communion with at least five different Protestant Evangelical 
denominations. 

The membership is composed of three classes : Active members, members of 
Protestant Evangelical Churches, between the ages of sixteen and forty years; 
counselling members, over forty years of age; and associate members, to which 
latter class any man over sixteen years of age is eligible, and will be received by 
the Secretary or Assistant Secretary, upon presentation of satisfactory evidence 
of good moral character. They have the privileges of active members except 
the right to vote and to hold office, and to be members of committees. 

The annual fee for simple membership for all classes is two dollars. By pay- 
ment of this a member is entitled to use the Reading-room and Library. By 
payment of five dollars by active and associate members, they are entitled to all 
the privileges of the Association. 

The object of the Association, as stated in its constitution, is "the improve- 
ment of the mental, physical, social, and spiritual condition of young men." 
The Association seeks to accomplish these by the employment of the following 
agencies: Reading-room, Library, Literary Society; Classes in French, German, 
Spanish, Writing, Book-keeping, and Vocal Music ; Gymnasium, Bowling Alley, 
Baths, Lectures, Social Meetings and Entertainments; Bible Classes, Prayer 
meetings. Service of Song, and Sermons to Young Men. 

The rooms of the Association are open daily from eight o'clock in the morn- 
ing till ten o'clock at night. The Library, Receptic" Room and Parlors are 
open on the Lord's day in the afternoon from one : * a half to half -past nine 
o'clock. 

The Literary Society meets every Tuesday evening in the Lecture Room. 
Members of the Association are eligible to membership in the Society. Visitors 
are cordially invited. 

The Association has opened three branches in different parts of the City where 
young men are invited to spend their evenings : The Harlem Branch, 2291 Third 
avenue; the Torkmlle Branch, corner of Eighty-sixth street and Third avenue; 



CHURCHES OF NEW YORK. 129 

and the Bowery Branch, at 134 Bowery. These have well-arranged and cheerful 
reading-rooms and halls for meetings. The first two branches are open from 
half-past seven o'clock to ten o'clock in the evening, and maintain prayer meet- 
ings, social receptions, entertainments, and in some instances lectures. 

OFFICERS 1875-76. 

William E, Dodge, Jr., President. 

Elbert H. Monroe, Vice-President. 

R. R. McBuRNEY, Corresponding Secretary. 

Jaimes a. Bennett, Recording Secretary. 

Jacob F. Wyckoff, Treasurer. 
Board of Directors. —Morris K. Jesup, James Stokes, jr., L. Bolton Bangs, 
James A. Bennett, Jacob F. Wyckoff, William F. Lee, John S. Bussing, J. V. 
Van Woert, jr., Waldron P. Brown, Robert R. McBurney, William H. S. Wood, 
William E. Dodge, jr., Cephas Brainerd, J. M. Cornell, G. M. Vanderlip, Wil- 
liam W. Hoppin, jr., Elbert B. Monroe, Riley A. Brick, W. H. Thomson, C. 
Vanderlip, jr. 



CHURCHES OF NEW YORK. 

Shoicing the Denomination, Location, Pastor, etc. 

The Hours of Service. — On the Sabbath : 10^ a.m., almost universally; 
afternoon, 3^ in winter, and 4 in summer ; evening 7i. Week-day evening 
services, usually Wednesday, 8 o'clock. 

BAPTIST. 

Abyssinian (col'd), 166 Waverly place ; pastor, Rev. Wm. Spelman. 

Amity, W. Fifty-fourth street, n. Eighth avenue ; pastor. Rev. W. R. Wil- 
liams, D.D. 

Berean, 35 Downing street; pastor, Rev. L. G. Barrett. 

Calvary, 50 W. Twenty-third street; pastor. Rev. R. S. Mc Arthur. 

Central, 220 W. Forty -second street; pastor, Rev. J. D. Herr. 

Central Park, E. Eighty-third street, n. Second avenue ; pastor, Rev. C. C. 
Norton. 

East, Madison street, cor. Gouverneur; pastor. Rev. W. S. Mikels. 

Ebenezer, 154 W. Thirty-sixth street; pastor, Rev. Wm. Benedict. 

Fifth avenue, W. Forty-sixth street, n. Fifth avenue ; pastor, Rev. Thomas 
Armitage, D. D. 

First, Park avenue, cor. E. Thirty -ninth street ; pastor. Rev. Thomas D. An- 
derson, D.D. 

First German, E. Fourteenth St., n. First avenue; pastor. Rev. G. A. Schults. 

First, Harlem, One-hundred-and-twenty-fif th street, n. Third av. ; pastor. Rev. 
George W. Samson, D.D. 

First Swedish; pastor, Rev. , 

First Mariners', Oliver street, cor. Henry; pastor, Rev. A. F. Perry. 

Grace, 405 W. Twenty- ninth street. 

Harlem Temple, One-hundred-and-twenty-fif th street, n. Fourth avenue ; pas- 
tor, Rev. . 

Macdougal street, 24 Macdougal street ; pastor. Rev. J. J. Muir. 



130 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

Madison avenue, Madison avenue, cor. E. Thirty -first street ; pastor, Rev. Jos. 
F. Elder, D.D. 

North, 120 Christopher street ; pastor, Rev. J. J. Brouner. 

Pilgrim, W. Thirty-third street, n. Eighth av. ; pastor. Rev. J. S. Kennard. 

Second German, 453 W. Forty-fifth street ; pastor, Rev. . 

Second, Harlem, One-hundred-and-eleventh street, bet. Third and Fourth 
avenues; pastor. Rev. Halsey Moore. 

Sixth street, 644 Sixth street ; pastor. Rev. D. C. Potter. 

Sixteenth, 257 W. Sixteenth street, n. Eighth av. ; pastor, Rev. D. B. Jutten. 

South, 235 W. Twenty-fifth street, n. Eighth avenue ; pastor. Rev. A. C. Os- 
born, D.D. 

Stanton street, 36 Stanton street, pastor, Rev. W. H. Leavell. 

Tabernacle, 162 Second avenue; pastor, Rev. J. B. Hawthorne. 

Trinity, E. Fifty-fifth street, n. Lexington av, ; pastor. Rev. J. S. Holme, D.D. 

W. Fifty-third street, W. Fifty-third street, n. Seventh avenue ; pastor, 

Sabbath services morning and evening. 

Tabernacle Church Mission, 189 E. Twentieth street. 

First Baptist Mission, Laight street, cor. Yarick; Rev. H. W. Knapp. 

Bethesda Baptist Misson, 233 E. Thirty-third street, n. Second avenue ; pas- 
tor, Rev. John Love. 

German Baptist Mission, 417 W. Fifty-third street, near Ninth avenue. 

Second Baptist Misson, Grand st., cor. Clinton; pastor, Rev. Samuel Alman. 

Bethany Baptist Mission, cor. Boulevard and Eighty-sixth street. 

Zion Baptist, 7 Seventh avenue. 

German Mission, Third avenue, near One-hundred-and-twenty-first street. 

Shiloh (col'd). Third avenue, near One-hundred-and-twcnth-sixth street. 

CONGREGATIONAL. 

Tabernacle, Sixth avenue, cor. W. Thirty-fourth street ; pastor, Rev. Wm. M. 
Taylor. 

Disciples, Madison av., cor. Forty-fifth street ; pastor, Rev. Geo. H. Hepworth. 

Harlem, Second avenue, cor. 125th street ; pastor. Rev. S. H. Virgin. 

Welsh, 206 E, Eleventh street ; pastor, Rev. D. S. Davis. 

Tabernacle Bethany Mission, Ninth avenue, cor. Thirty-sixth street ; pastor. 
Rev. W. Plested. ^ 

Mission, W. Fiftieth street, near Eighth avenue. 

AUiance Chapel, Sixty-eighth st. , n. Broadway; pastor. Rev. S. Colcord, jr. 

FRIENDS. 

Meeting-house, E. Fifteenth street, cor. Rutherford place. 
Meeting-house (orthodox), E. Twentieth street, near Third avenue. 
Meetmg-howse, 43 W. Twenty-seventh street, near Sixth avenue. 
Mission (orthodox), 303 E. Forty-first steeet. 
Mission (orthodox), 135 W. Thirtieth street, n. Sixth avenue. 

GREEK. 
Greek Mission, 951 Second avenue. 

JEWS. 
Adaareth El, 135 E. Twenty-ninth street. 
Adath Israel, E. Fifty-seventh street, n. First avenue. 
Ahawath Chesed, Lexington avenue, cor. E. Fifty-fifth street. 



CHURCHES OF NEW YORK. 131 

Anshi Emeth, E. Houston street, cor. Ridge. 

Anshi Bikur Cholim, 127 Columbia street. 

Beth Cholim, 232 W. Twenty-eighth street. 

Beth El, 817 Lexington avenue, cor. Sixty-third. 

Beth Hamidrash, 78 Allen street. 

Beth Hamidrash, 2d, 153 Chatham street. 

Beth Israel Bikur Cholim, 56 Chrystie street. 

Bikur Cholim, U-Kadischa, 63 Chrystie street. 

Bnai Israel, 41 Stanton street. 

Bnai Jeshurun, 145 W. Thirty-fourth street. 

Bnai Sholom, 630 Fifth street. 

Chisuck Amuno, E. Fifty-fourth street, n. Third avenue. 

Darech Amuno, New York University. 

Emmanuel, Forty-third street, cor. Fifth avenue. 

Poel Zedeck, W. Twenty-ninth street, cor. Eighth avenue. 

Rodeph Scholem, 8 Clinton street. 

Shaari Berocho, 306 Sixth street. 

Shaari Roch Mim, 146 Norfolk street. 

Shaari Tephila, W. Forty-fourth street, n. Sixth avenue. 

Shaari Zedeck, 38 Henry street. 

Shaaer Hashamoin, 91 Rivington street. 

Shagnarai Tikva, Lexington avenue, n. E. Eighty-seventh street. 

Shearith Israel, W. Nineteenth street, n. Fifth avenue. 

Shearith Israel, 114 Columbia street. 

Synagogue, Third avenue, cor. 124th street. 

LUTHERAN. 

Trinity, Avenue B, cor. Ninth street; pastor, Rev. F. Koenig. 

St. James, 216 E. Fifteenth street; pastor. Rev. A. C. Wedekind, D.D. 

St. John's, 81 Christopher street; pastor, Rev. A. H. M. Held. 

St. Luke's, W. Forty-second street, n. Eighth av. ; pastor. Rev. W. Busse. 

St. Mark's, 323 Sixth street ; pastor. Rev. H. Raegener. 

St. Matthew's, 354 Broome street, cor. Elizabeth ; pastor. Rev. Justus Ru- 
perti, D. D. 

Emmanuel, E, Eighty-third street ; pastor. Rev. F. W. Foehlinger. 

Bethlehem, 492 Grand street ; pastor. Rev. C. Kuehn, 

St Paul's, 226 Sixth avenue ; pastor. Rev. F. W. Geissenhainer, D.D. 

St. Peter's, Lexington av. , cor. Forty-sixth st. ; pastor. Rev. Dr. E. Moldehnke. 

Holy Trinity, 47 W. Twenty-first street, n. Sixth avenue; pastor, Rev. Gt. F. 
Krotel, D. D. 

Emmanuel, E. Eighty-seventh street ; pastor, Rev. L. Half man. 

St. Paul's, W. 123d street, n. Seventh avenue ; pastor, Rev. Julius Ehrhart. 

Church of Our Saviour (Norwegian), 56 Monroe street; Rev. S. O. Juul. 

Gustavus Adolphus (Swedish), 153 E. Twenty-second street; Rev. J. G. 
Princell. 

St. John's, E. 119th street, n. Third avenue ; pastor, Rev. W. F. Seeger. 

Church of Christ, 648 Sixth street ; Rev. G. U. Wenner. 

Zion Mission, 153 E. Twenty-second street. 

St. Stephen's Mission, 116 Elizabeth street. 

Emigrant House Chapel, 16 State street ; Rev. W. Berkemeier, 

Luther Chapel, 435 E. Houston street. 



132 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

METHODIST EPISCOPAL. 
(Sabbath services in all the Methodist churches, morning and evening.) 

Alanson, 53 Norfolk street ; pastor, Rev. W. P. Estes. 

Allen street, 126 Allen street ; pastor, Rev. C. E. Harris. 

Bedford street, 28 Morton street; pastor. Rev. G. H. Gregory. 

Beekman Hill, 321 E. Fiftieth street, n. Second avenue ; pastor, Rev. W. H. 
Thomas. 

Bethel Ship, foot of Carlisle street; pastor. Rev. D. S. Sorlin. 

Central, 58 Seventh avenue; pastor. Rev. C. S. Harrower. 

Cornell Memorial, E. Seventy-sixth street , n. Second avenue ; pastor. Rev. J. 
S. Haugh. 

Duane, 294 Hudson street ; pastor. Rev. J. A. Edmonds. 

Eighteenth Street, 307 W. Eighteenth street ; pastor, Rev. M. S. Terry. 

Five Points' Mission, 61 Park street; pastor, Rev. C. S. Brown. 

Forsyth street, 10 Forsyth street; pastor. Rev. J. B. Merwin. 

Forty-fourth street, 461 W. Forty-fourth street ; pastor. Rev. S. I. Ferguson. 

Forty -third street, 253 W. Forty -third street ; pastor. Rev. W. H. Mickle. 

Free Tabernacle, 248 W. Thirty-fourth street; pastor, Rev. John Johns. 

German, 252 Second street ; pastor. Rev. C. Jost. 

German Mission, 846 W. Fortieth street ; pastor, Rev. C. F. Grimm. 

Grace, 104th street, n. Ninth avenue ; pastor. Rev. R. Wheatley. 

Greene street, 69 Greene street ; pastor, Rev. J. A. Edmonds. 

Hedding, 337 E. Seventeenth street; pastor, Rev. J. H. Lightbourne. 

Hope, 125th street, n. Sixth avenue; pastor. Rev. J. G. Oakley. 

Jane street, 13 Jane street; pastor. Rev. W. W. Sever. 

John street, 44 John street ; pastor. Rev. W. H. Depuy. 

Lexington avenue, Lexington avenue, corner Fifty-second street ; pastor. Rev. 
J. W. Selleck. 

Perry street, 122 Perry street ; pastor. Rev. W. Ostrander. 

Rose Hill, 223 East Twenty-seventh street ; pastor. Rev. W. W. Clark. 

St. James', Madison avenue, corner 126th street ; pastor. Rev. 

St. John's, W. 231 Fifty-third street ; pastor, J. M. King. 

St. Luke's, West Forty-first street, near Sixth avenue ; pastor. Rev. W. P. 
Abbott. 

St. Mark's (colored), 65 West Thirty-fifth street ; pastor. Rev. E. W. S. Peck. 

St. Paul's, Fourth avenue, corner Twenty-second street ; pastor, Rev. J. A. 
M. Chapman. 

Second avenue. Second avenue, corner 119th street ; pastor. Rev. T. Burch. 

Second street, 276 Second street ; pastor. Rev. W. McAllister. 

Seventh street, 24 Seventh street ; pastor. Rev. J. S. Willis. 
South Harlem, 111th street, near Lexington avenue; pastor, Rev. A. Yon 
Comp. 
Thirtieth street, 331 West Thirtieth street; pastor. Rev. G. H. Corey. 
Thirty-fifth street, near Tenth avenue ; pastor, Rev. A. C. Morehouse. 
Thirty-seventh street, 223 East Thirty-seventh street ; pastor. Rev. W. H. 
Russell. 

Twenty-fourth street, 359 West Twenty-fourth street ; pastor, Rev. T. Lodge. 
Washington Square, 137 West Fourth street ; pastor, Rev. W. Lloyd. 
Washington Heights, Washington Heights ; pastor, Rev. H. H. Birkins. 
Willett street, 7 Willett street ; pastor, J. V. Saunders. 



CHURCHES OF NEW YORK. 133 

Torkville, E. Eighty-sixth street, n. Fourth avenue; pastor; Rev. A. D. Vail. 

Mission, 647 East Sixteenth street. 

" Broadway, corner Sixty-ninth street ; pastor. Rev. W. S. Bouton. 

Sixty-first street chapel. Sixty-first street, near Third avenue ; pastor. Rev. R. 
Crook. 

Mission, 197 Mott street. 
" 186 Franklin street. 

Eleventh street Chapel, 545 East Eleventh street, near Avenue B ; pastor. Rev. 
A. Graham. 

German Mission, Pearl street, corner Madison street ; pastor, Rev. F. W. 
Boese. 

Willett Mission, Cannon street, near Broome. 

German Mission, 98 Eighth street, near First avenue; pastor, Rev. C. Scherfi". 

Emmanuel Mission (colored), 87 Attorney street ; pastor, Rev. J. A. Davis. 

Wesley Mission, 292 Stanton street, cor. Cannon ; pastor. Rev. R. Roden. 

AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL. 

African Union, 161 West Fifteenth street ; pastor, Rev. W. Hutchings. 

Bethel, 214 Sullivan street ; pastor. Rev. Henry Davis. 

^ion, 331 Bleecker street ; pastor. Rev. Jacob Thomas. 

African Union, 132 West Thirtieth street ; pastor. Rev. P. Hopkins. 

Little Zion. East 117tli street, near Fourth avenue ; pastor, . 

Eethel Mission, 106 West Thirtieth street. 

FREE METHODIST. 
J'ree Methodist, 329 West Thirty-seventh street; pastor. Rev. M. N. Downing. 
CALVINISTIC METHODIST. 

Welsh, 225 East Thirteenth street ; pastor. Rev. . 

MORAVIAN. 

Moravian Church, Lexington avenue, corner East Thirtieth street ; pastor. 
Rev. A. A. Reinke. 
Moravian Mission, 636 Sixth street ; pastor. Rev. Theodore Sonderman. 

I^RESBYTERIAN. 

Allen streeet, 61 Allen street, near Grand ; pastor. Rev. George O. Phelps. 

Brick, Fifth avenue, corner Thirty-seventh street ; pastor, Rev. . 

Canal street, Greene street, near Canal ; pastor. Rev. . 

Central, West Fifty-sixth street, near Broadway ; pastor. Rev. James D. 
Wilson. 

Covenant, Park avenue, corner East Thirty-fifth street ; pastor, Rev. M. R. 
Vincent, D.D. 

Covenant, (colored), Prince street, corner Sullivan street ; pastor, Rev. T. C. 
Oliver. 

Eighty-fourth street. West Eighty-fourth street, near Boulevard ; pastor, Rev. 
W. W. Newell. D.D. 

Fifth avenue, Fifth avenue, corner West Fifty-fifth street ; pastor, Rev. John 
Hall, D.D. 

First, Fifth avenue corner West Eleventh street ; pastor, Rev. William M. 
Paxton, D.D. 



134 NEW TOEK AS IT IS. 

Fourth avenue, 286 Fourth avenue, corner East Twenty-second street ; pastor^ 
Rev. Howard Crosb}^ D.D. 

Fourteenth street, E. Fourteenth street, cor. Second avenue, pastor. Rev. 
Francis H. Marling. 

Fourth, West Thirty-fourth street, near Sixth avenue ; pastor, Rev. Joseph 
R. Kerr. 

French Evangelical, 9 University place ; pastor, Rev, H. L. Grandlienard. 

German, 290 Madison street ; pastor. Rev. B. Krusi. 

Harlem, E. 125th street, n. Fifth avenue ; pastor, Rev. J. S. Ramsay. 

Madison square, Madison avenue, cor. East Twenty-fourth street; pastor. Rev. 
W. J. Tucker, D.D. 

Manhattanville, Ninth avenue, cor. 126th street; pastor, Rev. . 

Memorial, Madison avenue, cor. Fifty-third street ; pastor. Rev. C. S. Robin- 
son, D.D. 

Mount Washington, Inwood ; pastor, Rev. Geo. S. Payson. 

Murray Hill, E. Fortieth street, n. Lexington avenue ; pastor, Rev. George S.. 
Chambers. 

New York, 167 W. Eleventh street ; pastor, Rev. W. W. Page. 

North, Ninth avenue, cor. ^Y. Thirty -first street ; pastor. Rev. S, B. Rossiter.. 

Phillips, E. Seventy-third street, cor. Madison avenue; pastor, Samuel D.. 
Alexander, D.D. 

Puritans, W. 130th street, n. Fifth avenue; pastor emeritus. Rev. George' 
B. Cheever, D.D. ; pastor, Rev. Edward L. Clark. 

Rutgers, Madison avenue, cor, E. Twenty-ninth street ; pastor, Rev. N. W.. 
Conkhng, D.D. 

Scotch, 53 W. Fourteenth street, n. Sixth avenue ; pastors. Rev. Joseph McEl- 
roy, D.D., and Rev. S. M. Hamihon. 

Sea and Land, Market street, cor. Henry ; pastor. Rev. Edward Hopper, D, D. 

Seventh, Broome street, cor. Ridge ; pastor, . 

Shiloh (colored), 140 Sixth avenue, and 135 W. Thirtieth street; pastor. Rev. 
H. H. Garnet, D.D. 

Spring street, 246 Spring street, n, Varick; pastor. Rev, G. M, McCampbell. 

Thirteenth street, 145 W. Thirteenth street ; pastor. Rev. Samuel D. Burchard,, 
D.D. 

University place, University place, cor. Tenth street; pastor. Rev. Robert R> 
Booth, D.D. 

Washington Heights, 155th street, cor. Boulevard; pastor, Rev. Charles A.. 
Stoddard, D.D. 

West, W, Forty-second street, n. Fifth avenue ; pastor, Rev. Thomas S, Hast- 
ings, D.D. 

Westminster, 151 W. Twenty-second street, n. Seventh avenue ; pastor, Rev. 
G. D. Matthews. 

West Twenty-third street, W. Twenty-third street, n. Seventh avenue ; pastor,, 
Rev. Erskine N. White, D.D. 

First Union, Yorkville, 145 E. Eighty-sixth street; pastor. Rev, James. 
Latimor. 

Chapel of Brick Church, 228 W. Thirty-fifth street, n. Seventh avenue ; pastor. 
Rev. Joseph J. Lampe. 

Chapel of Fifth avenue Church, 127 Seventh avenue. 

Alexander Chapel of Fifth avenue Church, 7 and 9 King street; pastor, Rev„ 
H. A, Davenport, 



CHURCHES OF NEW YORK. 135 

Mission of Fifth avenue Cliurch, 416 E. Fourteentli street, n. First avenue. 

Chapel of First Church, 35 W. Twelfth street. 

Mission of W. Twenty-third street Church, 273 W. Twenty-fifth street. 

Chapel of University place Church, 167 W. Eleventh street. 

Emmanuel Chapel of University place Church, Sixth street, n. Avenue D ; 
pastor. Rev. Erastus Seymour. 

Memorial Chapel of Madison square Church, E. Thirtieth street, n. Third 
avenue ; pastor, Rev. Charles H. Payson. 

German Mission of Madison square Church, 206 E. Thirty-first street ; pastor. 
Rev. M. A. Erdman. 

Grace Chapel of Fourth avenue Church, 340 E. Twenty-second street, n. First 
avenue; pastor, Rev. J. W. Earnshaw. 

Chinese Mission of Fourth avenue Church, 523 Pearl street. 

Hope Mission of Fourth avenue Church, avenue C, cor. Fourth street ; pastor, 
Rev. W. F. Matthews. 

Faith Chapel of West Church, 419 W. Forty-sixth street, n. Ninth avenue ; 
pastor. Rev. James H. Hoadley. 

Memorial Chapel of Convenant Church, 306 E. Forty-second street, n. Sec- 
ond avenue ; pastor. Rev Howard A. Talbot. 

Mission ot Fourteenth street Church, E. Twelfth street, n. avenue B. 

Mission of Seventh Church, 203 Rivington street. 

Krebs Mission (colored), 59 Thompson street. 

Salem Mission of Scotch Church, 185 Spring street. 

Emmanuel Mission of Scotch Church, 54 W. Fifteenth street. 

Westside Chapel of Fourth Presbyterian Church, 439 W. Thirty-third street. 

Bethesda Mission of Rutgers Presbyterian Church, 336 W. Twenty-ninth 
street. 

Goodwill Mission of Memorial Church, Second avenue, cor. Fifty-second st. 

Mission of Murray Hill Church, 30 Stuyvesant street. 
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN. 

Eleventh street, 206 E, Eleventh street ; pastor. Rev. J. D. Turner, 

Jane street, 41 Jane street ; pastor. Rev. Robert Scott. 

Seventh avenue, 29 Seventh avenue ; pastor. Rev. S. H. Graham. 

Seventh, 434 W. Forty-fourth street ; pastor. Rev. G. Campbell. _ 

Third, 41 Charles street; pastor. Rev. Hugh H, Blair. 

West Twenty-fifth street, 161 W. Twenty-fifth street ; pastor. Rev. John Kirk- 
patrick. 

Harlem, E, 127th street, n. Third avenue ; pastor, . 

Charles street Mission, Eighth avenue, cor. Thirty-fourth street. 

Mission, Third avenue, cor. Eighty-sixth street. 

Harlem, E. 116th street, bet. Second and Third avenues; pastor, Rev. J. S. 
McCulloch. 

REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN. 

First, 123 W. Twelfth street; pastor. Rev. Wm. Wylie. 

First, 426 W. Twenty-eighth street ; pastor. Rev. J. C. K. Milligan. 

Second, 221 W. Thirty-ninth street, n. Seventh avenue ; pastor, Rev. Andrew 
Stevenson, D.D. 

Third, 238 W. Twenty-third street; pastor, Rev. David Gregg. 

Fourth, 365 W. Forty-eighth St., n. Ninth av. ; pastor, Rev. James Kennedy. 

Mission, 440 W. Fortieth street. 



136 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL. 

All Angels', W. Eighty-first St., n. Eleventh av. ; rector, Rev. C. F. Hoffman. 

All Saints', 286 Henry street; rector. Rev. W. N. Bunnell. 

Annunciation, 142 W. Fourteenth street; rector. Rev. Wm. J. Seabury. 

Anthon Memorial, 139 W. Forty-eighth street, n. Seventh av. ; rector, Rev. 
R. H. Newton. 

Ascension, Fifth av., cor. Tenth st. ; rector. Rev. John Cotton Smith, D. D. 

Atonement, Madison av. , cor. Twenty-eighth st. ; rector, Rev. C. C. Tiffany. 

Beloved Disciple, Madison avenue, cor. Eighty-ninth st. 

Calvary, Fourth av., cor. E. Twenty-first st.; rector, Rev. E. A.Washburn,D.D. 

Chapel of Holy Comforter, 365 West street; rector. Rev. H. F. Roberts. 

Chapel of Our' Saviour, foot of Pike St., E. R. ; rector, Rev. R. J. Walker. 

Christ, Fifth av., cor. Thirty -fifth St.; rector. Rev. H. M. Thompson, D. D. 

Du St. Esprit, 30 West Twenty-second street; rector. Rev. Leon Pons. 
(French). 

Epiphany, 228 East Fiftieth street ; rector, Rev. U. T. Tracy. 

Grace, 800 Broadway; rector, Rev. H. C. Potter, D. D. 

Grace, E. One-hundred-and-sixteenth street, n. Second av. ; rector, Rev. D. 
B. Ray. 

Heavenly Rest, Fifth avenue, n. E. Forty-fifth street; rector. Rev. R. S. How- 
land, D.D. 

Holy Apostles', Ninth avenue, cor. W. Twenty-eighth street; rector, Rev. 
John P. Lundy. 

Holy Communion, Sixth avenue, cor. Twentieth street; rector. Rev. Francis 
E. Lawrence. 

Holy Martyrs, 39 Forsyth street ; rector. Rev. James Millett. 

Holy Saviour, E. Twenty-fifth street, n. Madison avenue; rector. Rev. A. B. 
Carter, D. D. 

Holy Sepulchre, E. Seventy-fourth street, n. Fourth avenue; rector. Rev. 
James T. Smith. 

Holy Trinity, Madison avenue, cor. E. Forty-second street; rector, Rev. 
Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., D. D. 

Holy Trinity of Harlem, Fifth av. , cor. 125th st. ; rector, Rev. R. H. McKim. 

Incarnation, Madison av. , cor. Thirty -fifth st. ; rector, Rev. Arthur Brooks. 

Intercession, 158th St., cor. Eleventh av. ; rector. Rev. E. W. Donald. 

Mediator, Eleventh avenue, n. Fifty-first street ; rector. Rev. John McCaffrey. 

Nativity, 70 Avenue C ; rector. Rev. Caleb Clapp. 

Redeemer, E. Eighty-second street., cor. Fourth av. ; rector, J. W. Shackel- 
ford. 

Resurrection, E. Eighty -fifth St., n. Third av. ; rector. Rev. J. W. Trimble. 

Santiago, 30 W. Twenty-second st. ; minister. Rev. J. D. Palma. 

St. Alban's, E. Forty-seventh street, n. Lexington avenue : rector, Rev. C. W. 
Morrill. 

St. Ambrose, 117 Thompson street; rector. Rev. H. T. Widdemer. 

St. Andrews, 137th st., n Fourth av. ; rector. Rev. G. B. Draper, D.D. 

St. Ann's, 7 W. Eighteenth st. ; rector. Rev. Thomas Gallaudet, D.D. 

St. Bartholomew's, Madison av. ; cor. Forty -fourth st. ; rector. Rev. Samuel 
Cooke, D.D. 

St. George's, Rutherford pi., cor. E. Sixteenth St.; Rev. Stephen H.Tyng,D.D. 

St. Clement's, 108 Amity St.; rector, Rev. Theodore A. Eaton, D.D. 

St. Ignatius, W. Fortieth street, n. Sixth av. ; rector. Rev. F. C. Ewer, D.D. 



CHUKCHES OF NEW YORK. 137 

St. James', E. Seventy-second st., n. Third av.; rector, Rev. C. B. Smith. 

St. John Baptist, 261 Lexington av.; rector, Rev. C. R. Duffie, D.D. 

St. John Evangelist, 223 W. Eleventh St.; rector, Rev. Wra. T. Egbert. 

St. John's, 46 Varick street; rector, Rev. S. H. Weston, D.D. 

St. Luke's, 483 Hudson street; rector. Rev. I. H. Tuttle, D.D. 

St. Mark's, Stuyvesant St., cor. Second av. ; rector. Rev. J. H. Rylance, D.D. 

St. Mary's, W. 128th St., n. Tenth av.; rector. Rev. C. C. Adams. 

St. Mary's, Forty -fifth st. , n. Seventh av. ; rector. Rev. T. M. Brown. 

St. Michael's, Broadway.c. Ninety -ninth st. ; rector. Rev.T. M. C.Peters,D.D, 

St. Paul's, Broadway, cor. Vesey St.; rector. Rev, B. I. Haight, D.D. 

St. Peter's, 340 W. Twentieth St.; rector. Rev. Alfred B. Beach, D.D. 

St. Phillip's (colored), 305 Mulberry st. ; rector, Rev. J. S. Atwell. 

St. Stephen's, 53 W. Forty-sixth St., n. Sixth av.; rector, Rev. Joseph H. 
Price, D. D. 

St. Thomas', Fifth av., cor. Fifty-third st.; rector. Rev. W. F. Morgan, D.D. 

St. Timothy, W. Fifty- seventh street, n. Eighth avenue; rector. Rev. G. J. 
Geer, D.D. 

Transfiguration, E. Twenty-ninth street, n. Fifth avenue ; rector. Rev. G. H. 
Houghton, D.D. 

Trinity, Broadway, opp. Wall street; rector. Rev. Morgan Dix, D.D. 

Trinity Chapel, 15 W. Twenty-fifth street; rector. Rev. C. E. Swope, D.D. 

Zion, Madison avenae, cor. Thirty-eighth street; rector. Rev. J. N. Gallaher. 

Calvary Chapel, 218 E. Twenty- third street; minister. Rev. W. D. Walker. 

Rutger Street Mission, 58 Rutgers street ; minister. Rev. . 

St. George's Mission, Chapel of Free Grace, 408 E. Nineteenth street; minis- 
ter, Rev. . 

St. George's Mission, German, 420 E. Fourteenth street; minister, Rev. J. C. 
Fleischacker. 

St. George's Mission, Chapel of Bread of Life, 420 E. Fourteenth street. 

St. Mark's Mission, 141 Avenue A ; minister. Rev. S. A. McNulty. 

Ascension Chapel of Shepherd's Flock, 330 W. Forty-third street; minister, 
Rev. John F. Steen. 

Ascension Chapel of Comforter. Greenwich street, cor. Jane. 

Mission Chapel of St. Thomas' Church, E. Sixtieth street, near Second av. 

Atonement Chapel, 418 W. Forty-first street ; minister. Rev. George Howell. 

Grace Chapel, E. Twenty-third street, near Tliird avenue; minister, Rev. J. 
W. Kramer. 

St. Chrysostom Chapel, Seventh avenue, cor. Thirty-ninth street; minister. 
Rev. T. H. Sill, 226 W. Fortieth. 

St. Augustine Chapel, 264 Bowery; minister. Rev. A. C. Kimber. 

Incarnation Chapel of Reconciliation, 242 E. Thirty-first street; minister. Rev. 
E. S. Widdemer. 

Bethlehem Mission, Ninth avenue, cor. Eighty-third street; minister. Rev. F. 
Oertel. 

St. Barnabas Chapel, 306 Mulberry street; minister, Rev. C. T. Woodruff. 

Mission Chapel, 130 Stanton street. 

French, in Chapel, Fourth avenue, near Twenty-first street; minister. Rev. 
Emile Borel. 

Italian, in St. Ambrose Church, 117 Thompson and 46 Franklin streets; min- 
ister, Rev. C. Stauder, 814 Greenwich street. 

Mission, 352 W. Thirty-fifth. 



138 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

REFORMED EPISCOPAL. 

First Reformed Episcopal, Madison avenue, cor. Forty-seventh street ; rectOFj, 
Rev. W. T. Sabine. 

Second Reformed Episcopal, W. 26tli near 7tli av. ; rector, Rev. George 
Howell. 

REFORMED. 

Bloomingdale, W. Seventy-first street, n. Ninth avenue; paster. Rev. Enoch 
Van Aken. 

Collegiate, Lafayette place, cor. Fourth street ; pastor, Rev. Talbot W. Cham- 
bers, D.D. 

Col leijiate. Fifth avenue, cor. Twenty-ninth street; pastor, Rev. Wm. Ormis- 
ton. D.b. 

Collegiate, Fifth avenue, cor. Forty-eighth street; pastors, Rev. Thomas E. 
Yermilye, D.D., and Rev. James M. Ludlow, D.D. 

Fourth German Mission, 246 W. Fortieth street, n. Eighth avenue ; pastor. 
Rev. J. H. Oerter. 

German Evangelical Mission, 141 E. Houston street; pastor. Rev. Julius W. 
Geyer. 

German Reformed Protestant, 129 ISTorfolk street; pastor, Rev. Henry A. 
Friedel. 

Harlem, Third avenue, cor. 121st street; pastor, Rev. G. H. Mandeville, D.D. 

Holland, W. Twenty-ninth street, n. Ninth av. ; pastor. Rev. A. H. M. Bech- 
thold. 

Madison avenue, Madison avenue, cor. Fifty-seventh street ; pastor, 

Prospect Hill, E. Eighty-fifth street, near Second avenue; pastor. Rev. D. M. 
L. Quackiubush, t>. D. 

South, Fifth avenue, cor. Twentv-first street; pastor. Rev. E. P. Rogers, D.D, 

Thirty-fourth street, 307 W. Thirty-fourth street ; pastor, 

St. Paul's, Sixth avenue, cor. Forty-second street ; pastor. Rev. . 

Union, 25 Sixth avenue ; pastor, Rev. W. B. Merritt. 

Wasliington Ileights, Washington Heights. 

Washington Square, Wooster street, cor. Washington place; pastor. Rev. 
iVlanciusS. Hut ton, D.D. 

Collegiate Mission, 160 W. Twenty-ninth street; pastor, Rev. J. H. Bertholf. 

Collegiate Mission, 514 Ninth avenue, near Thirty-ninth street ; pastor. Rev. 
W. H. De Hart 

Collegiate Mission, Seventh avenue, cor. Fifty-fourth street ; pastor. Rev. V. 
B. Carroll. 

Collegiate Mission, Fulton street, near William ; pastor, Rev. George J. 
Mingings. 

South Church Mission Chapel, 348 W. Twenty-sixth street. 

Thirty-fourth Street Church Mission, 405 W. Twenty-ninth street. 

German Evangelical Mission, 71 Avenue B, cor. Fifth street ; pastor. Rev. M. 
N. Steffens. 

German Evangelical Mission, Second avenue, N. W. cor. Fifty-second street. 



ROMAN CATHOLIC. 

Annunciation, W. 131st street, n. Broadway ; priest. Rev, J. J. Griffen. 
Assumption, W. Forty-ninth street, n. Ninth avenue ; priest, Rev. B. Stroehle. 
Epiphany, Second avenue n. Twenty-second street ; priest, Rev. R. L. BurtselL 




ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHREDAL-FIFTH AVENUE. 



CHUKCHES OF NEW YORK. 139 

Holy Cross, 335 W. Forty-second street ; priest, Rev. P. McCarthy. 
Holy Innocents, W. Tliirty-seventli st. n. Broadway ; priest, Rev. John Larkin. 
Holy Name of Jesus, Broadway n. Ninety-seventh st. ; priest. Rev. R. Brennan. 
Immaculate Conception, 505 E. Fourteenth street ; priest. Rev. John Edwards. 
Most Holy Redeemer. 165 Third street ; priest, Rev. Joseph Wirth. 
Nativity, 46 Second avenue ; priest, Rev. William Everett. 
New Cathedral, (building), Fifth Avenue. 
Our Lady of Sorrow, 105 Pitt street ; priest, Rev. Ivo Prass. 
St. Agnes, E. Forty-third St., n. Third ave. ; priest. Rev. Henry C. McDonelL 
St. Alphonso's, 10 Thompson street ; priest, Rev. Eugene Grimm. 
St. Andrew's, Duane street cor. City Hall place ; priest, Rev. Michael Curran. 
St. Ann's, 112 E. 12th street ; priest. Rev. T. S. Preston. 
St. Anthony's, 143 Sullivan street ; priest, Rev. James Titta. 
St. Bernard's, 334 W. Fourteenth st. n. Ninth ave. ; priest. Rev. G. A. Healey,. 
St. Boniface, E. Forty-seventh street n. Second avenue ; priest, Rev. M. Nicot.. 
St. Bridget's, Avenue B, cor. Eighth street ; priest. Rev. Thomas J. Mooney.. 
St Cecilia, 105th st., bet. First and Second avs. ; priest. Rev. Hugh Flattery. 
St. Colomba's, 339 W. Twenty-fifth street ; priest, Rev. M. McAleer. 
St. Elizabeth, Broadway, cor. One-hundred-and-eighty-seventh street ; priest,. 
Rev, Henry A. Brown. 

St. Francis, 139 W. Thirty-first street ; priest, Rev. Eugene Dikovich. 

St. Francis Xavier, 36 W. Sixteenth street ; priest. Rev. D. Merrick. 

St. Gabriel's, E. Thirty-seventh st. , n. Second av. ; priest. Rev. W. H. dowry. 

St. James's, 32 James street ; priest. Rev. F. H. Farrelly. 

St. John Baptist, 209 W. Thirtieth street ; priest. Rev. B. Frey. 

St John Evangelist, E. Fiftieth st., n. Fifth av. ; priest. Rev. James McMahon. 

St Joseph's, Sixth av., cor. W. Washington pi. ; priest. Rev. Thomas FarrelL 

St. Joseph's (German), W. 125th street, n. Ninth av. ; priest. Rev. A. Kessler. 

St. Lawrence, E. Eighty-fourth st. , n Fourth av. ; priest. Rev. Florentine Acherd.. 

St. Mary's, 438 Grand street : Rev. E. J. O'Reilly. 

St Mary Magdalen ; E. Seventeenth street, n. Avenue B. 

St. Michael's, 407 W. Thirty-first street ; priest, Rev. Arthur S. Donnelly. 

St. Nicholas, 125 Second street ; priest. Rev. F. Krebesz. 

St. Patrick's Cathedral, Mott street, cor. Prince ; His Eminence John 

McCLOSKEY, D.D.* ^ -r m XX 1 

St Paul's, W. Fifty-ninth street, n. Ninth avenue ; priest, Rev, I. T. Hecker. 

St Paul's, E. 117th street, n. Fourth avenue ; priest. Rev, Eugene Maguire. 

St. Peter's, Barclay street, cor. Church ; priest. Rev. M. J. O'Farrell. 

St. Rose of Lima, 32 Cannon street ; priest. Rev, M, McKenna. 

St. Stanislaus, 264 Madison. x^ „ ^, 

St. Stephen's, 149 E. Twenty-eighth street ; priest, Rev. E. McGlynn. 

St Theresa, Rutgers street cor. Henry ; priest, Rev. James Boyce. 

St Vincent de Paul, 127 W. Twenty-third st . ; priest, Rev, Edmund AuvriL 

St. Vincent, Lexington av. , cor Sixty-fifth st. ; priest,Rev. M. D . Lilly. 

Transfiguration, Mott street, cor. Park ; priest. Rev. J. H. McGean. 

(The residence of the clergy is usually found adjoining the church they serve,^ 

* Created Cardinal Priest of the Holy Roman Catholic Church, March 15, 1875, 



140 



NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



UNION OR UNDENOMINATIONAL CHURCHES AND MISSIONS. 

Marinors' Church, cor. Madison and Catharine ; pastor, Rev. E. D. Murphy. 

Port Society Mission. 

Port Society Mission, Dover street, cor. "Water. 

Howard Mission, 40 New Bowery. 

Wilson Mission, Avenue A, cor. Eighth street ; pastor, Rev. . 

Church of the Strangers, Neilson pi. (Mercer st.) n. Eighth street ; pastor, 
Pev. C. F. Deems, D. D. 

Olivet Chapel, 63 Second street ; pastor. Rev. A. F. Schauffler. 

Lebanon Chapel, 70 Columbia street ; pastor. Rev. J. H. Bradley. 

Church of the Disciples, Madison av., cor. Forty-fifth st. ; pastor, Rev. George 
H. Hepworth. 

Carmel Chapel, 134 Bowery ; pastor. Rev. D. Stuart Dodge, 134 Bowery. 

Rose Memorial Chapel, 418 W. Forty-first street ; pastor. 

Calvary Chapel, 153 Worth street ; pastor. 

DeWitt Chapel, 135 Greenwich street ; pastor, Rev. George Hatt. 

Alliance Chapel, h Sixty-eighth street, n. Broadway; pastor. Rev. S. Colcord, jr. 

UNITARIAN. 

All Soul's, Fourth avenue, cor. E. Twentieth street ; pastor, Rev. H. W. Bel- 
lows, D. D. 

Messiah, Park avenue, cor. E. Thirty-fourth street ; pastor. Rev. W. R. Alger. 
Third, Sixth avenue, n. Forty-second street ; pastor, Rev. O. B. Frothingham. 
Fourth, E. 128th street, n. Fourth avenue; pastor. Rev. W. T. Clarke. 
Mission, 30 Stuyvesant street, Plimpton Building. 

UNIVERSALIST. 

Third, 266 Bleecker st. ; pastor. Rev. E. T. Sweetzer. 
Fourth, Fifth av. cor. Forty-fifth street ; pastor. Rev. Edwin H. Chapin, D.D. 
Our Saviour, W. Fifty-seventh street, n. Eighth avenue ; pastor, Rev. Jamea 
M. Pullman. 

Mission, 127th street, n. Fourth avenue ; pastor, Rev. Charles Fluhrer. 
Universalist Association, Sixth avenue, cor. Thirty-third street. 
Mission, Plimpton Building, 30 Stuyvesant street. 
Mission, Brevoort Hotel, E. Fifty-fourth street, a. Third avenue. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 



Christian Israelites, 108 First street. 

German Evangelical Reformed, 97 
'Suffolk street. 

Disciples, 24 W. Twenty-eighth st. 

German Evangelical, 138 W. Twenty- 
iourth street. 

Second Advent, 405 Grand street. 
" " Cooper Union, Room 

24. 

First Congregational Methodist, W. 
Twenty-fourth street, near Sixth av. 

German Swedenborgian, 141 Christie 
street. 



True Reformed Church, Perry street, 
cor. West Fourth. 

Mission, 435 E. Houston street. 

Mission, 180 Wooster street. 

Mission, Broad way, cor. Forty-third St. 

Phelps' Mission, 335 E. Thirty-fifth st. 

Mission, W. Fiftieth st. ,near Eighth av. 

Camp Mission, 116 Elizabeth street. 

Mission, 405 W. Twenty-ninth street. 
Catholic Apostolic, 128 W. Sixteenth st 
Swedenborgian, 68 E. Thirty-fifth st. 
Messiah, Second Advent. 
Welsh Church, 225 E. Thirteenth st. 



CHUECHES OF NEW YORK. 141 



Second Advent, 68 E. Broadway. 



fourth street. 



Mission, 454 W. Twenty -ninth street. 

Mission. Ninth avenue, cor. Thirty- 
sixth street. 

German Mission, W. Fifty-first street, 
near Tenth avenue. 

German Mission, Eighth avenue, near 
Sixty-eighth street. 



Mission, 69 Ludlow street. 
Mission, Third avenue, cor. Eighty- 
sixth street. 
Mission, Third avenue, near 114th st. 
Italian Mission, 99 South Fifth av. 
Mission, 845 W. Twenty-eighth st. 
Star Mission, 169 W. Twenty-sixth st. 
Mission, Eighth avenue, cor. Thirty- 
There are four societies of Spiritualists, four clubs of Free Thinkers and In- 
ifidels, a company of Comte's followers, and other circles of a similar character^ 
who advertise meetings weekly, in various halls throughout the City. 
Total number of Churches and Missions, 470. 

NEW YORK CITY MISSIONS. 

135 Greenwich street. I 134 Bowery. 

153 Worth street. | 63 Second street. 

70 Columbia street. 

MIDNIGHT MISSION. 
Home, 260 Greene street. 

MISSIONS AT THE FIVE POINTS. 
Ladies' M. E. Mission, 61 Park street. Services every Sabbath at 3 p. m. 
House of Industry, 155 Worth street. " " " 

HOWARD MISSION. 
Howard Mission, 40 New Bowery. Services every Sabbath at 3 p. m. 

CHURCHES FOR SEAMEN. 



74 Madison street. 
Oliver street, cor. Henr}^ 
Market street, cor. Henry. 
Bethel, Pike street. East River. 
Bethel. Pier 11, North River. 



Dover street, cor. Water. 
135 Greenwich street. 
22 South street. 
34 Pike street. 
365 West street. 



Bethel, 75 Beach street. 

FREE CHURCHES. 
There will be found in almost every Protestant Church some free seats, and 
more or less generous attention paid to strangers. All of the mission churches, 
in chapels, halls, and bethels, at least fifty in number, are held with open doors, 
and all persons are freely invited to enter. In addition to these, there are fifteen 
to twenty of the regularly incorporated churches which are known as free-seat 
churches ; and many of the old-established churches advertise every week a Sab- 
bath evening service, where all the seats are entirely free, and all comers are 
made welcome. 

NEW YORK PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CITY MISSION SOCIETY. 

RT. REV. BISHOP HORATIO POTTER, PRESIDENT. 

This Society employs eight missionaries and Bible-readers, who are chiefly 
engaged in laboring in the public institutions on Blackwell's Island, Ward's 
Island, Randall's Island, and in the hospitals, prisons, and asylums in the city. 
The Society has also opened a House of Refuge, at 304 Mulberry street, for the 



142 NEW TOYK AS IT IS. 

lodging of friendless women, for the protection of strangers, and the saving of 
-wanderers. A mission chapel is opened at 306 Mulberry street, and a reading- 
room at 308 Mulberry street. For further information apply at 306 Mulberry 
street. 

THE NEW YORK CITY CHURCH EXTENSION" AND MISSIONARY 

SOCIETY OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 

John B. Cornell, President. 

The object of this Society is to promote Missions and Church Extension in 
the City of New York, in connection with the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

The oflace of the Society is at 805 Broadway, corner Eleventh street. 

NEW YORK CITY COMMITTEE OP THE AMERICAN CHURCH 
MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 

NO. 3 BIBLE HOUSE. 

This Committee is engaged in establishing mission chapels, and sending out 
City missionaries to extend the Kingdom of Christ in the City in connection with 
the Protestant Episcopal Church. 

CITY MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 

This Society is engaged in establishing and sustaining mission churches in 
connection with the Protestant Reformed Church. 

Wm. E. Barnes, Sec'y, 29 South street. 
Gamaliel G. Smith, Treas. , 342 Pearl street. 

THE NEW YORK CITY MISSION AND TRACT SOCIETY. 

Instituted 1827. Reorganized and Incorporated 1866. 
Lewis E. Jackson, Cor. Sec. and Assist. Treas. 
office, 50 bible house. 
It is the oldest organization of the kind in the city, entirely unsectarian, de- 
signed to give the gospel to the needy. It employs 30 missionaries, male and 
female, who are daily visiting the poor. It has 6 mission stations. It holda 100 
meetings weekly. It sustains preaching services. Sabbath-schools, reading- 
rooms, etc. It gives popular lectures and social entertainments to the people. 
It furnishes a field for the employment of the lay talent of the churches. It 
has erected a mission station at No. 63 Second street, known as Olivet Chapel, 
at a cost ot $20,000, which has been pronounced a model of its kind, ami has, 
in conjunction with the House of Industry, built the commodious and attractive 
Calvary Chapel, 153 Worth street, and has purchased and fitted up three other 
houses for missionary purposes, and holds in all real estate to the value of 
$100,000. The money contributed for the Mission Building Fund is kept entirely 
distinct from donations to the general work, and is either represented in real 
estate unencumbered or good investments. 

SABBATH SCHOOLS. 
The latest census gives 356 Protestant Sabbath-schools, with 88,287 scholars: 
•on roll, and an average attendance of 56,187. And of Roman Catholics, Jews, 
■ etc., there are 59 Sabbath Schools, having 27,589 scholars on roll, and an average 
attendance of 18,274. 



CEMETERIES. 143 

TOTAL NUMBER OF CITY MISSIONARIES IN NEW YORK. 

The total number of City missionaries in New York may be set down at 266, 
Avho probably make 800,000 visits a year. Besides these, there are hundreds of 
tract visitors, and hundredsof poor visitors and other voluntary agents of various 
churches and societies who are going about continually doing good. 

TOTAL NUMBER OF MISSIONS IN NEW YORK. 

There are 140 Protestant Missions in the City where Sabbath schools and preach- 
ing and other religious and moral services for adults, or children, or both, are 
regularly carried on. Of this number, 45 are permanently established in suit- 
able, commodious church-like buildings, with the ministry, the ordinances, and 
the government that usually appertain to churches, though they be not regu- 
larly incorporated as such. 

CEMETERIES. 

Calvary. — Office, 266 Mulberry street. The grounds are in Newtown, L. I., 
about two miles from East Tenth Street Ferry. M. Rowan, Supenntendent. 

City. — On Hart's Island. Office, 66 Third avenue, corner East Eleventh 
street. L. C. Dunphy, Superintendent. 

Cypress. — Office, 124 Bowery. The grounds are situated on the northerly- 
side of the Jamaica Turnpike, about five miles from Williamsburg ferries. N. 
G. Palmer, Superintendent. 

Evergreen.— Office, 163 Bowery. Located three miles east of Brooklyn. 

Greenwood.— Office, 30 Broadway. The grounds are situated in Brooklyn, 
on Gowanus Heights, about two and a half miles from Hamilton Avenue 
Ferry. The Cemetery, opened in September, 1840, now contains about 450 
acres ; interments to January, 1875, 172,890. Henry E. Pierrepont, President. 
J. A. Perry, Secretary and Comptroller. 

Lutheran. — Office, 293 Broadway. Grounds on the Jamaica turnpike road, 
near Middle Village, L. I. , four miles from the Williamburg ferries. 

Marble.— Office, 65 Second street. Grounds in Second street, between First 
and Second avenues. James H. Hull, Keeper. 

Machpelah.— Office, 160 West Twenty-fourth street. The grounds are lo- 
cated at New Durham, Hudson Co., N. J., about one mile from Weehawken 
Ferry. Robert McClintock, President. Walter T. Miller, Secretary. 

Mount Pleasant.— Located on Buffalo avenue, Brooklyn, four miles from 
Fulton Ferry. Robert Williams, President. 

New York Bay.— Office, 5 Dey street. The grounds are on the Bergen 
Point plank road, two and a half miles from Jersey City Ferry. T. H. Buck- 
master, Secretary. 

Trinity Church.— Office, 187 Fulton street. The grounds are between West 
153d and West 155th streets, between Tenth avenue and the North River. 
James Amin, Keeper. 

Union.— Office, 192 Rivington street. The grounds are located near Wyckoff 
avenue, Brooklyn, three and a half miles from the WiUiamsburg ferries. 
Joshua Brown, President. J. S. Cronk, Secretary. 



144 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

Woodlawn.— Office, 48 East Twenty-third street. The grounds, 380 acres, 
are in the Twenty-fourth Ward of the City of New York, near the Westchester 
Co. Line, six miles from Harlem Bridge, on the line of the Harlem Railroad, 
The Southwest entrance, for carriages, on Central avenue. 



Benevolent Associations. 

FOR POOR. 

Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, 59 Bible House. 

Ladies Union Relief Association, Mrs. Kennedy, 135 W. Twenty-second st. 

For the Employment and Relief of the Poor, for women, 143 E. Thirteenth sti 
" "■ " " for women, 120 W. Sixteenth St. 

" " " " for women, 876 Broadway. 

" " "for all, 155 Worth st. 

Ladies' Mission of the Protestant Espiscopal Church to the Public Institutions* 
296 Madison avenue. 

St. John's Guild, St. John's Chapel, 52 Varick street. 

For the Employment and Relief of the Poor, for women and children, 29 E. 
Twenty-ninth street. 

Commissioners of Charities for Out-Door Poor, 66 Third avenue, corner 
Eleventh street. 

Labor Exchange, for Emigrants, Castle Garden. 

The Society for the Relief of Poor Widows with Small Children, Mrs. Trins- 
dale, 205 W. Thirteenth. 

The New York Female Assistance Society, for Sick Poor (give food and 
clothing), Mrs. Purdy, 30 W. Thirty-third street. 

For the Employment of Women, 64 Irving place, cor. Eighteenth street. 

Working Women's Protective Union, for Women, 38 Bleecker street. 

Bureau of Employment for Men and Women, Nos. 8 and 10 Eighth street. 

Sisters of the Stranger, 4 Winthrop place, Greene street, near Eighth. 

Friends' Mission for Colored People, 135 W. Thirtieth street. 

Stranger's Friend, for Men, 316 Water street. 

Ladies' Missionary Association, 46 Catharine street. 

Food for the Destitute Sick, 525 West Fifty-first street, and 306 W. Fifty- 
second street. 

New York Diet Kitchen, food for the sick, 110 and 374 Second avenue. 

Women's Educational and Industrial Society, Sewing and other Schools for 
Women, 47 E. Tenth street. 

School of Trades, to teach people how to work, 124 W. Twenty-sixth street. 

The United Hebrew Charities, 59 Fourth street. 



A s y 1 u ms , 

FOR AGED. 

Home for Aged Israelites, 822 Lexington avenue, cor. Sixty-third street. 
Association fo*: l*espectable Aged Indigent Females, 226 E. Twentieth street. 
Protestant Episcopal Home for Aged, Madison avenue, cor. Eighty-ninth st. 
Baptist Home for Aged, Sixty-eighth street, near Fourth avenue. 
Methodist Episcopal Home for Aged, 255 W. Forty-second street. 
Presbyterian Home for Aged, Seventy-third street, near Madison avenue. 



ASYLUMS BENEVOLENT SOCIETIES. 145 

Colored Home, foot of E. Sixty-fifth street, East River. 

Samaritan Home for Aged Men and Women, 409 Fourteenth st. , cor. Ninth av. 
St. Joseph's Home, Roman Catholic, 203 W. Fifteenth street. 
St. Stephen's Home, Roman Catholic, 145 E. Twenty-eighth street. 
Home for Aged Men and Women, Roman Catholic, 179 E. Seventieth street. 
Chapin Home, E. Sixty-sixth street, near Lexington avenue. 
Home for Aged Men and Aged Couples, 485 Hudson street. 
Home for Aged Men, St. Johnland, refer to Rev. Dr. Muhlenberg, St. Luke's 
Hospital. 
Trinity Chapel Home for Aged Women, 208 W. Twenty-seventh street. 

FOR WOMEN. 

Lying-in-Asylum, 85 Marion street. 

Lying-in-Asylum, E. Fifty-first street, cor. Lexington avenue. 
Infant Asylum, for Mothers and Infants, 24 Clinton place, and Tenth avenue, 
cor. Sixty-first street. 

FOR BLIND. 

New York Institution for the Blind, Ninth avenue, near Thirty-fourth street. 
Destitute Blind, 219 W. Fourteenth street. 

FOR DEAF AND DUMB. 

New York Institution for Deaf and Dumb, W. 162d street, near Bloomingdale 
road 
Association for Deaf Mutes, 642 Seventh avenue, near Forty-fifth street. 
Home for Deaf Mutes, 220 E. Thirteenth street. 

FOR LUNATICS. 

Asylum for Lunatics, W. 117th street, near Tenth avenue ; office, 8 West 
Sixteenth street. 
Asylum for Lunatics, Blackwell's Island ; office, 66 Third avenue. 

FOR INEBRIATES. 

Asylum for Inebriates, Ward's Island ; office, 66 Third avenue. 

FOR SOLDIERS. 

Asylum for Soldiers, Ward's Island ; office, 66 Third avenue. 



Benevolent Societies. 

Ancient Britons' Benefit Society, meets at 35 Bayard street first Tuesday in 
each month. 

Ancient Order of Hibernians ; the Board of Directors meet first Monday in 
January, April, July and October, at 28 Prince street. 

Blind Mechanics' Association, 432 W. Thirty-sixth street. 

Bnai Jeshurun Benevolent Society, 145 W. Thirty-fourth street. 

Father Mathew Total Abstinence Benefit Society, 401 Second avenue, and 214 
Bowery. 

Franklin German Benevolent Society, meets first Monday in each month at 26 
Delancey street. 

French Benevolent Society, 21 Houston, or refer to F. R. Coudert, 49 Wall st. 



146 NEW YOEK AS IT IS. 

Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, refer to Hon. John R. Brady. 

German Mutual Assistance Society, for Widows and Orphans, 23 Frankfort st. 

German Ladies Aid Society, 350 Broome street, cor. Elizabeth street. 

Germania Benevolent Society, meets first and third Thursdays of each month 
at 10 Stanton street. 

Hebrew Benevolent Society, 6 Walker street. 

Hebrew Charities, 59 Fourth street. 

Irish Emigrant Society, 51 Chambers street. 

Italian Benevolent Society, 69 Fulton street, Bureau for Labor, 302 Pearl street. 

Life Saving Benevolent Association, refer to Elwood Walter, 35 Wall street.. 

Lutheran Emigrant Home, 16 State street. 

Montefiore Widow and Orphan and Benevolent Society, meets Broadway, 
cor. W. Twenty-ninth street. 

New York Benefit Society of Operative Masons. 

New York Diet Kitchen, 374 Second avenue, refer to C. L. Tiffany, 15 Union 
square. 

New York Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men, 
refer to Dr. Smith, 14 E. Seventeenth street. 

New York Typographical Society, 3 Chambers street. 

Prison Association, 19 Centre street. 

Public Health Association, refer to Dr. Harris, 58 Bible House. 

St. David's Benevolent Society, meets on the third Monday of March, June, 
Septem'ber, and December, at 214 Bowery. 

St. Vincent de Paul (Roman Catholic), refer to Dr. H. J. Anderson, 266 Mul- 
berry street. 

Swiss Benevolent Society, 63 Bleecker street and 19 John street. 

Teutonia Benevolent Society, meets second and fourth Tuesday in each month 
at 10 Stanton street. 

United Hands, meets at 56 Orchard street. 

Working Women's Union, 38 Bleecker street. 

Ladies' Missionary Association for the Fourth Ward, 46 Catharine street. 

The Life Saving Society, Dr. Howard, Secretary. 

Society for Suppression of Vice, refer to Young Men's Christian Association. 

Charities. 

Bureau of Charities, for the better organization of the City Charities, refer to 
Henry E. Pellow, 18 W. 33d st. 

Christian Associations. 

FOR YOUNG WOMEN. 

Ladies' Christian Home Association, Boarding-house for Young Women, 27 
and 28 Washington square ; Temporary Home, 133 Macdougal street. 

Female Christian Home, 314 East Fifteenth street. 

New York Business Women's Union, 222 Madison street. 

AVomen's Library, 38 Bleecker street. 

Young Ladies' Christian Association, Library, etc. , 64 Irving place, cor. 18th 
street. 

Young Women's Aid Association, 85 East Fourth street. 



DISPENSAEIES — EDUCATION SOCIETIES. 147 

City Missions. 

l^ev^ York City Mission and Tract Society, 50 Bible House. 

City Missionary Society of tlie Reformed Churcli, 34 Vesey street. 

Sabbath school and Churcli Extension Committee of the Presbytery of New 
Tork, refer to Dr. Roosa, 20 East Thirtieth street. 

Protestant Episcopal City Mission, 306 Mulberry street. 

New York City Church Extension and Missionary Society of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, 805 Broadway, cor. Eleventh street. 

New York City Committee of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 3 Bible House. 

Midnight Mission, 306 Mulberry street. 

Female City Mission, 50 Bible House. 

Female Bible Readers' Mission, 6 Bible House. 

Baptist City Mission, 76 EastNinth street. 

Dispensaries. 

Central, 934 Eighth avenue. 

Demilt, Second avenue, cor. Twenty-third street. 

Eastern, Essex Market, 57 Essex street. 

Eclectic, 228 East Twenty-sixth street. 

German, 332 West Fortieth street, 65 St. Mark's place. 

Homoeopathic, at 59 Bond street, 423 West Thirty-fourth street, Bleecker street, 
cor. Mulberry, 307 East Fifty-fifth street, 109 West Thirty-fourth street, Third 
avenue, cor. Twenty-third street, 228 East Broadway, 578 Ninth avenue, 201 East 
JEighty-third street. 

Manhattan, 246 East Thirteenth street. 

New York, Centre street, cor. White. 

Northeastern, 222 East Fifty-ninth street. 

Northern, Waverly place, cor. Christopher street. 

Northwestern, Ninth avenue, cor. Thirty-sixth street. 

Orthopoedic, 126 East Fifty-ninth street. 

Harlem, 188 East One-hundred-and-twenty-second street. 

Hoffman, 153 West Twenty-eighth street. 

Western, 334 Ninth avenue. 

Yorkvillc, 1476 Third avenue. 

For Diseases of Throat and Chest, 49 University place. 

For Diseases of the Skin, 101 East Thirtieth street, cor. Fourth avenue. 

For the Ear, West Thirty-sixth street, cor. Ninth avenue. 

For Tumors, 101 East Thirtieth street. 

Women's Dispensary, 39 West Sixteenth street and Lexington avenue and 
Thirty-seventh street. 

For Children, 406 East Fifteenth street. 

Diet Kitchens, refer to C. L. Tiffany, 15 Union square. 

Trinity Infirmary, for Sick Poor, 50 Varick street. 

Education Societies. 

Board of Education of Presbyterian Church, 23 Centre street. 

Board of Education of Reformed Church, 34 Vesey street. 

Board of Education of Protestant Episcopal Church, 5 Cooper Union. 

Society for Collegiate Education at West, 62 Bible House. 

House of the Evangelists, 52 Seventh street. 

Bethany Institute, 69 Second avenue, corner Fourth street. 



148 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

Homes. 

Home for the Friendless, 29 East Twenty-nintli street. 

Home for Colored Aged, foot of East Sixty-fifth street, East River. 

House of Mercy, foot of West Eighty-sixth street. North River. 

Home for Women, 304 and 306 Mulberry street. 

Home for Training Young Girls, 41 Seventh avenue, corner Thirteenth street. 

Home for Mothers and Infants, 24 Clinton place, and Tenth avenue, corner- 
West Sixty-first street. 

Home for Women, 260 Greene street. 

Home for Women, 273 Water street. 

Home for Girls, 86 West Fourth street. 

House of Industry, 155 Worth street. 

House of Industry, 120 West Sixteenth street. 

Home of Prison Association, 213 Tenth avenue. 

Magdalen Asylum, Eighty-eighth street, near Fifth avenue. 

Infants' Home, Lexington avenue, corner East Fifty-first street. 

Home for Foundlings (Roman Catholic), Lexington av, and Sixty-eighth str 

Home for Incurables, A. M. Campbell, Superintendent, Fordham. 

Young Women's Home, 27 and 28 Washington square. 

Business Women's Home, 222 Madison street. 

House of Good Shepherd (Roman Catholic), foot of East Eighty-ninth street. 
East River. 

Home for Aged Men, Ninth avenue, corner Fourteenth street. 

Home for Little Wanderers, 40 New Bowery. 

Home for Soldiers, Ward's Island. 

Home for Sailors, 190 Cherry street. 

Home for Blind, 219 West Fourteenth street. 

House of Rest for Consumptives, refer to H. J. Cammann, 8 Wall street. 

St. Joseph's (Roman Catholic), East Eighty-first street, n. Madison avenue. 

St. Stephen's Home (Roman Catholic), 138 East Twenty-eighth street. 

Home for Aged Israelites, Lexington avenue, corner Sixty-third street. 

Home for Babies, refer to 131 Lexington avenue. 

Industrial Home for Jewesses, 145 West Thirty-fourth street. 

Shelter for Girls, 334 Sixth avenue. 

Temporary Home for Women, 133 Macdougal street. 

Home Missions. 

American Home Missionary Society, 34 Bible House. 

Presbyterian Board of Home Missions, 23 Centre street. 

Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 805 Broadway, corner 
Eleventh street. 

American Church Missionary Society, Protestant Episcopal Church, 3 Bible 
House. 

American Missionary Association, 56 Reade street. 

American Christian Society for Jews, refer to Rev. J. C. K. Milligan, 30^ 
West Fifty-second street. 

Military Post Library Association, 58 Broadway. 

American Baptist Home Mission, 150 Nassau street. 

American Congregational Union, 69 Bible House. 

American and Foreign Christian Union, 47 Bible House. 



FOREIGN MISSIONS INSTITUTIONS FOR CHILDREN. 149 

jLadies Board of Missions, 20 Washington square. 

Society for Collegiate and Theological Education, 62 Bible House. 

Foreign Missions. 

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 39 Bible House. 

American Colonization Society, 44 Bible House. 

Board of Foreign Missions, Reformed Church, 34 Vesey street. 

Missionary Society of Methodist Episcopal Church, 805 Broadway, corner 
^Eleventh street. 

Board of Foreign Missions of Presbyterian Church, 23 Centre street. 

Board of Foreign Missions of Protestant Episcopal Church, 23 Bible House. 

American Church Missionary Society of Protestant Episcopal Church, 3 Bible 
House. 

American Missionary Association, 56 Reade street. 

American Baptist Free Mission, 37 Park row. 

American and Foreign Christian Union, 47 Bible House. 

American Baptist Missionary Union, 76 East Ninth street. 

Woman's Union JVIissionary Society, 47 East Twenty-first street. 

Ladies Board of Missions, 20 Washington square. 

Institutions for Children. 

The Girls' Lodging House, 27 St. Mark's place. 

The Newsboys' Lodging House, William street, cor. Chambers street. 

Italian School, 46 Franklin street. 

iSheltering Arms, Tenth avenue, and 129th street. 

Refuge for Homeless Children, 211 West Eighteenth street. 

3oys' Lodging House, 709 East Eleventh street. 

House of Refuge, Randall's Island; office, 61 Bible House. 

JFive Points House of Industry, 155, 157, 159 Worth street. 

New York Ladies' Home Missionary Society, 61 Park street. 

N. Y. Juvenile Asylum, 175th street, High Bridge ; House of Reception, 61 
W. Thirteenth street. 

Howard Mission, 40 New Bowery. 

Wilson Industrial School, 127 Avenue A, cor. Eighth street. 

Society for the Protection of Destitute Roman Catholic Children, 29 Reade 
street ; 15 E. Eighty-sixth street ; and Westchester. 

Children's Aid Society, 19 E. Fourth street. 

Union Home for Soldiers' Children, 151st street, near Eleventh avenue. 

American Female Guardian Society, 29 E. Twenty-ninth street. 

Home for Christian Care, refer to Rev. S. H. Tyng, Jr., D. D. 

House of the Good Shepherd, Rockland Co., refer to Rev. G. Gay, Jr., 
Tompkins Cove, Rockland Co., N. Y. 

St. Johnland, refer to Rev. Dr. Muhlenberg, St. Luke's Hospital. 

St. Paul's Mission House, Day Nursery, 28 Cortlandt street. 

Roman Catholic Industrial School for Soldiers' Children, E. Eighty -first street, 
near Madison avenue. 

Home for Seamen's Children, Staten Island. 

Shepherd's Fold, E. Eighty-sixth street, n. Second avenue. 

Wayside Home School, 405 W. Twenty-ninth street. 

For Befriending Children (Roman Catholic), 135 Second avenue. 

Children's Fold, 437 E. Fifty-eighth street. 



160 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

N, Y. Infant Asylum, 24 Clinton place. 
Dispensary for Sick Children, 406 E. Fifteenth street. 
St. Vincent Home (Iloman Catholic), for Boys, 53 Warren street. 
Summer Boarding for Poor Children, Staten Island, refer to Children'! Aid 
Society, 19 E. Fourth street. 

Orphan Asylums. 

New York Orphan, Bloomingdale road, near West Seventy-third street ; apply 
for admission at 109 East Twenty-first street, Wednesdays. 
Leake and Watts Orphan House, West 111th street and Ninth avenue. 
Hebrew Orphan and Half Orphan, East Seventy-seventh st. , near Third av. 
Colored Orphan Asylum, Tenth avenue and 143d street. 
. Orphans' Home of the Prot. Epis. Church, E. Forty-ninth St., n. Lexington av.. 
Koman Catholic Orphan, for Girls, Prince street, corner Mott. 

" " for Boys, Fifth avenue, corner Fifty-first street, 

" " " for Girls, East Eighty-sixth street, near Second av. 

" " " Madison avenue, corner Fifty-second street. 

" " " Madison avenue, corner Eighty-first street. 

Protestant Half Orpnan, 65 West Tenth street, near Sixth avenue. 
Wartburg Orphans' Farm School, Mount Vernon, Westchester county. 
St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum (Roman Catholic), E. Eighty-sixth st. , cor. Av. A. 
St. Vincent de Paul Orphan Society (Roman Catholic), 209 W. Thirty-ninth St.. 

Prison Associations. 

National Prison Association, 320 Broadway, Room 52. 
Prison Association of New York, 58 Bible House. 
Aid of Prisoners, 19 Centre street. 
Aid of Female Prisoners, 110 Second avenue. 

Reform. 

For Prisoners, 19 Centre street. 
Female Prisoners, 110 Second avenue. 

Magdalen Asylum, Eighty-eighth street, near Fifth avenue. 
For Juvenile Delinquents, House of Refuge, Randall's Island, office 61 Bible 
House. 

House of Mercy for Women, West Eightj^-sixth street. North River. 

St. Barnabas Home for Women, 306 Mulberry street. 

Home lor Girls, 86 West Fourth street. 

Midnight Mission, for Women, 260 Greene street. 

For Inebriates, Ward's Island. 

House of Mercy, Roman Catholic, East Eighty-ninth street. East River. 

Juvenile Asylum, for Children, 61 West Thirteenth street. 

House of the Good Shepherd, for Women, West Eighty-sixth St., North River.. 

Hou-eof the Good Shepherd, Roman Catholic, E. Eighty-ninth St., East River.. 

I or Women, 273 Water street. 

Prison Association, 58 Bible House. 

Retreat. 

Bible Woman's Rest-awhilo. Summer boarding for Women and Children,, St» 
Johnland, L. I., refer to Rev. Dr. Muhlenberg, St. Luke's Hospital.. 



SOCIETIES. 151 

Seamen's Societies. 

American Seamen's Friend, 80 Wall street. 

Marine Society, 12 Old Slip. 

Marine Temperance Society, 72 Madison street. 

Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen, 74 Wall street. 

Mariners' Family Industrial Society, 72 Madison street. 

Mariners' Guide and Wanderers' Aid Society, Oliver street, corner Henry st. 

Sailors' Home, 190 Cherry street. 

Society for promoting the Gospel among Seamen in the port of New York 
(usually called the Port Society), 72 Madison street. 

Seamen's Exchange, 187 Cherry street. 

Beading matter for Soldiers and Sailors may be sent to 72 Madison street and 
58 Broadway. 

Sunday School Societies. 

American Sunday school Union, 8 Bible House. 

New York Sunday school Association, 304 Fourth av. and Twenty-third st. 

Protestant Episcopal Sunday school Union, 713 Broadway. 

Methodist Episcopal Sunday school Union, 805 Broadway, cor. Eleventh st. 

New York Sunday school Missionary Union, 8 Bible House. 

Baptist Sunday school Union, 76 East Ninth street. 

Presbyterian Sunday school Association, refer to Dr. Roosa, 20 E. Thirtieth st. 

Tract Societies. 

American Tract Society, 150 Nassau street. 
Protestant Episcopal Tract Society, 5 Cooper Union. 

Tract Society of Methodist Episcopal Church, 805 Broadway, cor. Eleventh st, 
American Tract Society (of Boston), Hurd & Houghton, 13 Astor place. 
Baptist Tract Society, 76 East Ninth street. 
Willard Tract Depository, 239 Fourth avenue. 

State Charities. 
State Commission of Public Charities, 58 Bible House. 
State Charities Aid Association, office, E. Twentieth st. 

Training Schools for Christian Workers. 

House of Evangelists, for men, 52 Seventh street. 

Bethany Institute, for women, 69 Seventh avenue, cor. Fourth street. 

Training School for Nurses, Bellevue Hospital. Office, 52 E. Twentieth st.. 
Home, 314 E. Twenty-sixth street. 

Temperance Societies. 

National Temperance Society, 58 Reade street. 

Marine Temperance Society, 72 Madison street. 

There are of Sons of Temperance, Good Templars, and other orders, 70 meet- 
ings weekly; and there are 30 Father Mathew Temperance Societies. 

Inebriate Asylums. 

Kings County Inebriate Asylum, Fort Hamilton, L. I.— Hon. J. S. T. Strana- 
han, President; Rev. John Willetts, Superintendent. 

Ward's Island Asylum for Inebriates, near New York City— Under charge of 
the Commissioners of Charities and Correction. Dr. W. R. Fisher, Resident 
Physician. OflBce, 63 Thi-rd avenue. 



152 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO 

CHILDREN. 

OfiQce, 860 Broadway. Incorporated April, 1875. 

OFFICERS for 1875-76. 

John D. Wright, President. 

Vice-Presidents. — James Brown, Augustus Belmont, Peter Cooper, Theodore 

Roosevelt, Wm. E. Dodge, Henry Bergli, Jonathan Thome, Eldridge T. Gerry, 

Robert L. Stuart, Cornelius Vanderbilt. 

Wm. L. Jenkins, Treasurer. 
E. Fellows Jenkins, Secretary. 

AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO 

ANIMALS. 

Headquarters, Fourth Avenue, cor. Twenty-second Street. 
This Institution was incorporated April 10, 1866, by the Legislature of the 
State of New York. The objects of the Society are : to provide effective means 
for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the United States ; to en- 
force all laws which are now or may hereafter be enacted for the protection of 
animals, and to secure by lawful means the arrest, conviction and punishment 
of all persons violating such laws. The society to consist of resident, non-resi- 
dent, honorary, corresponding and ex-ojicio members 

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY. 

Henry Bergh, President. 
Vice-Presidents.— ILenrj W. Bellows, Elbridge T. Gerry, James Brown, Ben- 
jamin D. Hicks, Horace B. Claflin, John T. Hoffman, Peter Cooper, Marshall 
O. Roberts, John A. Dix, Moses Taylor. 

Executive Committee.—^. M. Beckwith, Charles Lanier, John M. Bixby, 
Frank Leslie, Thomas C. Doremus, Charles H. Marshall, Nathan C. Ely, Edw. 
Matthews, Elbridge T. Gerry, Royal Phelps, Frederic Gallatin, James Stokes, 
Townsend Harris, Charles L. Tiffany, Alexander Van Rensselaer. 
Charles Lanier, Treasurer. 
Elbridge T. Gerry, Counsel. 
N. P. Hosack, Secretary. 
Thos. W. Hartfield, Superintendent 



CITY HOSPITALS. 

Bellevue, foot of East Twenty-sixth street. East River. 

Children's Hospital, East Fifty-first street, near Lexington avenue. 

German, Fourth avenue, corner Seventy-seventh street. 

Home for Incurables, Fordham. Address A. M. Campbell, Superintendent, 
Fordham. 

Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System, Second avenue, corner St. 
Mark's place. 

Hospital for Foundlings, East Fifty-first street, near Lexington avenue. 

Hospital for Foundlings (Roman Catholic), Sixty-eighth St., near Third av. 

Lymg-in Hospital, Lexington avenue, corner East Fifty-first street. 

Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, 233 East Thirty-fourth street. 



HOSPITALS. 153 

Metropolitan Throat Hospital, 17 Stuyvesant street. 
Mount Sinai, Lexington avenue, corner Sixty-sixth street. 
New York, Bloomingdale ; office, 8 "West Sixteenth street. 
New York Eye Infirmary, 216 Second avenue. 

New York Hospital and College, for Women, Lexington avenue, corner 
Thirty-seventh street. 

New York Infirmary for Women, 14 Livingston place, and 126 Second avenue. 

New York Ophthalmic, Third avenue, corner Twenty-third street. 

Ophthalmic and Aural, 46 East Twelfth street. 

Presbyterian Hospital, Madison avenue and Seventieth street. 

Rest for Consumptives, Tremont, refer to H. J. Cammann, 8 Wall street. 

Hoosevelt Hospital, Ninth avenue, corner Fifty-eighth street. 

Ruptured and Crippled, Lexington avenue, corner Forty-second street. 

Seamen's Friend and Retreat, Staten Island. 

St. Francis' Hospital (Roman Catholic), Fifth street, near Avenue B. 

St. Luke's, West Fifty-fourth street, corner Fifth avenue. 

St. Vincent's (Roman Catholic), 195 West Eleventh street. 

Strangers', Avenue D, corner Tenth street. 

Ward's Island; office. Castle Garden. 

Woman's Hospital, East Forty-ninth street, cor. Fourth avenue. 

Saint Mary's Free Hospital for Children. 

The success of the Saint Mary's Free Hospital for Children, which was opened 
five years ago by a few persons, who quietly made themselves responsible for 
the rent and maintenance of a building, is now a fact beyond doubt. At the 
l)eginning, the Institution was placed, by those who agreed to maintain the ex- 
periment, under the supervision of Bishop Potter, while the hospital work was 
put in charge of the Sisters of Saint Mary. 

A removal to larger premises, at No. 407 West Thirty-fourth street, was 
found necessary three years ago, and during the last two years it has become 
evident that a large and suitable building, with all the modern hospital conve- 
niences, has become a positive necessity. A movement is on foot for the pur- 
chase of the present house and the grounds adjacent, and on the lots east of the 
house it is proposed to build the new hospital. The cost of this ground and the 
liouse will be about $25,000, which sum it is proposed to raise by subscription. 

There is no distinction made on account of religious creeds in the admission 
of patients into the Institution, and as it is the only child's hospital of the kind 
in the country, it is hoped that all persons, irrespective of creed, will give it aid 
and sympathy. 

Contributions may be sent to and certificates received from the Hospital, No. 
407 West Thirty -fourth street, New York City. 

NEW YORK HOSPITAL. 

Office, No. 8 West Sixteenth street : 
i^Lihrary^ Patliological Cabinet and Business Office of the Hospital and Blooming- 
dale Asylum.) 
This institution was founded 1770; chartered by George III., July 13, 1771 ; 
corner-stone laid July 27, 1773. Patients first admitted, Jan. 3, 1791. The old 
building finally vacated February, 1870. 

The property heretofore known as the " Thorn Mansion," on West Sixteenth 



154 NEW YORK AS IT IS 

Street, has been purchased by " The Society of the New York Hospital," to- 
gether with the surrounding land, forming a plot 125x103 feet on Sixteenth 
street, and 75x103 feet on Fifteenth street, in the rear. 

The above building will be used for the administration purposes of the Society^ 
and will contain, in addition, its extensive Library and Pathological Cabinet. 
The Hospital will accommodate about 150 patients, or a larger number if more 
land adjoining can be purchased, in which it is intended to care for persons in- 
jured by accidents, or who may be taken suddenly ill in the streets in the west- 
erly and southerly districts of the City. 

OFFICERS, 1876. 

Robert Lenox Kennedy, President. 

James W. Beekman, Vice-President. 

Wm. H. Macy, Treasurer. 

David Colden Murray, Secretary. 

Together with a Board of Governors. 

Bellevue Hospital 

Entrance, foot of Twenty- sixth Street, East River. 

Established November, 182G, as a Hospital for the sick and the insane 
poor. Present number of beds, 1,000; provision for 1,200. Maximum charge 
for patients, $3.50 per week, which is expected only from those abundantly able 
to pay. Contagious diseases not admitted. 

The medical management is vested in a Medical Board, who meet on the first 
of every month, to assign from their number the visiting staff to the several 
divisions. 

The admission of patients (between 10 A.M. and 3 P.M.) is readily procurable 
upon the recommendation of a physician. Accidents and sudden illness at anj 
time, day and night. Hours for visitors, from 11 A.M. to 3 P.M., daily. 

St. Luke'3 Hospital. 
Fifty-fourth Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. 

The object of this corporation is "the establishment, support, and manage- 
ment of an institution to be known as St. Luke's Hospital, for the purpose of 
affording medical and surgical aid and nursing to sick or disabled persons, and 
also to provide them, while inmates of the Hospital, with the ministrations of 
the Gospel, agreeably to the doctrines and forms of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church. A further object of the Society is the instructing and training of 
suitable persons in the art of nursing and attending upon the sick." 

This noble institution was founded by the Rev. William A. Muhlenberg^ 
\J. D., in 1846, since which time, liberal donations have been contributed, spa- 
cious ground purchased, and a large edifice erected. The corner-stone of the 
building was laid in 1854, and finished in 1857, at a cost of upwards of $100,000. 

1 he Hospital is under the control of a Board of thirty-one Managers. The 
othcersot the Society are a President, two Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer and a 
becretary. The professional staff" consists of four attending and four consulting- 
physicians. 

Wm. a. Muhlenberg, Pastcn^ and Superintendents 
Geo. M. MiLj^er, Secretary. 




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PART VII. 



PARKS AND PUBLIC SQUARES, STREETS, CITY RAILROADS, «&c. 



THE BATTERY, 

Formerly the moet attractive spot on the Island, is situated at the southernmost 
terminus of the City, facing the harbor of New York ; connected with the, 
Battery is Castle Garden. 

BOWLING GREEN. 

Near the Battery, at the entrance to Broadway, is the small enclosure so- 
called from having been used as such prior to the Revolution. Here stood, at 
the commencement of the Revolutionary struggle, the leaden statue of Georgfe 
III., which was pulled down and melted into bullets, to be used by the 
Americans. 

CITY HALL PARK, 

Is an enclosure of about ten acres, containing the City Hall, Court House, and 
other public buildings, also the new United States Post Office, which is one of 
the finest buildings in America. A new fountain, which is very elaborate in 
appearance, has recently been erected in this Park. 

WASHINGTON SQUARE, 

Was formed by laying out the ground formerly occupied as a Potter's Field. 
On the east side is the University Building. South Fifth Avenue now bisects- 
this Park. 

UNION SQUARE, 
Facing Broadway on the south and west, extends from Fourteenth to Seven- 
teenth streets, and from Fourth avenue to University place. At the south side- 
is the bronze equestrian statue of Washington, and opposite, on Broadway side^ 
stands the statue of Abraham Lincoln. 

GRAMERCY PARK, 

Situated a little to the northeast of the above, is a select and beautiful enclosure- 
on a smaller scale. This Park is private property, having been ceded to the; 
owners of the surrounding lots by Samuel B, Ruggles, Esq, 



156 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

STUYVESANT PARK 

lExtends from Fifteenth to Seventeenth street, and is divided by the intersecting 
passage of the Second avenue. The Rev. Dr. Tyng's Church is upon the west 
:side of this Park. The ground was presented by the late Peter G. Stuyvesant, 
Esq., to the corporation of this Church. 

TOMPKINS SQUARE, 
Ten and one-half acres in extent, occupying the area formed by Avenues A and 
3, and Seventh and Tenth streets, is uow used as a parade ground, but orders 
have been issued to place it in its former condition as a park. 

MADISON SQUARE, 

Comprising ten acres, is at the junction of Broadway and Fifth Avenue. On 
the west side stands the monument of General Worth. Facing the square stands 
the Fifth Avenue Hotel. 

RESERVOIR PARK. 
Reservoir Square is located between the Fifth and Sixth avenues, and For- 
tieth and Forty-second streets, and has an extent of between nine and ten acres, 
^ipon one-half of which is the Distributing Reservoir. The other, or western 
half, once had upon it the New York Crystal Palace, but since the destruction 
of that building by the fire of 1858, the grounds have been kept open as a park. 

MT. MORRIS SQUARE. 
Mt. Morris Square presents the anomalous appearance of an abrupt hill, with 
thickly- wooded sides, rising from the midst of a plain that has no other hills 
upon it. It "heads off" the Fifth avenue at One-hundred-and-twentieth 
street, and extends as far north as One-hundred-and-twenty-fourth street, and 
its area is over twenty acres. This is a favorite resort for the citizens of Harlem 
and its vicinity. 

RIVERSIDE PARK, 
Situated on the bank of the noble Hudson, between Seventy-second and One- 
hundred-and-twenty-ninth streets, is a long narrow strip of land, almost 
entirely on the river slope, comprising some eighty-two acres, and at present 
possessing no other than natural beauties. When finished as proposed, it will, 
no doubt, be the noblest park in the world of its extent. 

MORNINGSIDE PARK 
Is another grand contemplated improvement, being a newly laid out piece of 
^ound forming the area between Eighth and Tenth avenues and One-hundred- 
and-tenth to One-hundred-and-twenty-third streets. The land here is so ex- 
cessively irregular that it could not have been, under any circumstances, adapted 
to building purposes. 



PARKS. 15T 

Under the control of the present Commissioners, all of the above-named 
parks have lately undergone a marked improvement. Many of them, more 
especially the Battery Grounds, were a disgrace to the city, but they are no\r 
being fast transformed into miniature paradises ; all have been entirely re- 
modeled, and in some the changes have been so radical that they would not be 
recognized as the old spots by persons who have been absent from the city for 
the past five years ; Union Square, Washington Square and the Battery Grounds 
are notable instances of the entire and complete changes that have been effected;, 
the most prominent of these is the removal of the iron railings and fences, and 
the placing of numerous lights along the paths, making all portions of the 
ground as visible as in the day time. Let these contemplated improvements be 
finished as proposed, then New York, including the attractions of Central 
Park, will be a most splendid metropolis, equal to any city in the world as 
regards ornament and commercial advantages. 

CENTRAL PARK, 

The largest of all our parks, was laid out in 1857. It is two and one-half miles 
long, three-fifths of a mile wide, and contains 843 acres. It has cost over 
$12,000,000, and is now maintained at an annual expense of about $250,000. It 
has twelve entrances, contains five and a-half miles of bridle path, nine and 
a-half of carriage roads, and twenty-eight miles of walks. The old Arsenal, at 
the southeast entrance, is a three-story stone structure, filled with the collections 
of the society of "American Museum of Natural History." Outside of this 
structure are large cages, with bears, eagles, serpents, and many other varieties 
of animals. 

The lakes and fountains in the Park are exquisitely beautiful. The old Croton 
Reservoir covers 35^ acres, and new Croton Reservoir 106^ acres, elevated 115 feet 
above tide-water. In the northern section stands the old convent, the chapel of 
which is now a gallery of art, containing the finest collection of statuary m the 
country. Near this are also the Nursery grounds, covering two and a-half acres, 
A large Zoological Garden is constructed, with underground accommodations 
for bears, seals, the walrus, beaver, &c. 

The Park contains the best Meteorological Observatory in America; also a fine 
Astronomical Observatory. There is also a Paleozoic Museum, containing life- . 
size representations of most of the animals believed to have existed in America 
during the secondary and post-tertiary geological periods. The Park, exclusive 
of the water areas, contains 707i acres, the total area being 843 acres ; as a 
whole it is a museum of genius and curiosity, presenting everywhere the choicest 
aspects of nature and art. 



158 NEW YOKK AS IT IS. 

No wagons or carts a^o allowed on its drives, but by an ingenious device four 
streets cross it from Fifth to Eighth avenues, under the Park roads; these streets 
:are 65th, 79th, 85th, and 97th. 

The Second, Third, and Fourth avenue cars convey passengers to 65th street, 
on the east side of the city, and Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth avenue cars convey 
passengers on the west side of the city ; also, the Elevated Railroad, running 
through Greenwich street and Ninth avenue. 

Central Park — Areas of Surface, &c. 

Length of Park from 59th to 110th street 13,507 feet. 

JBreadth " 5th to 8th avenue 2,718 " 

Superficial ai'ea - 843 acres. 

" " ground known as Manhattan Square 19 " 

Total Park area .-. 862 " 

Water Surface, &c. 

Elevation, 
Acres. Fett. 

Area, exterior to inclosure — Broad walks. 3 

' ' occupied by four Transverse Roads 9 

" " new Croton Reservoir. 106^ 115.20 

old Reservoir 35i 115.20 

Total area of Park within inclosure, exclusive of above areas 707i acres. 

Area, occupied by Carriage Roads 49^ acres. 

Bridle Paths- -- 15 " 

Walks 38^ " 

Total-..- 103 " 

Length of Carriage Roads completed 9^ miles. 

" Bridle Roads completed 5^ " 

Walks completed. 28 " 

OBJECTS OF INTEREST IN CENTRAL PARK. 

Copied from the Central Park Map. 



1. Humboldt Monument. 

2. The Pond. 

3. Museum and Park Offices. 

4. Dairy. 

5. Children's Cottage. 

6. Children's Summer House. 

7. Ball Players' House. 
<8. Playground. 

S. The Green. 



10. Statue of Commerce. 

11. Carrousel. 

12. The Marble Arch. 

13. Shakspeare Monument. 

14. The Mall. 

15. Oak and Elm, planted by Prince of 

Wales. 

16. Music Pavilion. 

17. Yine-covered Walk. 





CENTRAL PAEK 


HACKNEY COxVCHES. 15^ 


18. 


Carriage Concourse. 


46. 


Stable. 


19. 


Casino, Refreshment House 


47. 


Reservoir Keeper's House. 


20. 


Croquet Players' House. 


48. 


Spring. 


21. 


The Terrace. 


49. 


The Knoll. 


22. 


Fountain. 


50. 


North Gate House. 


23. 


Bronze Statue of Tigers. 


51. 


The West Meadow. 


34. 


Drinking Fountain for Horses. 


52. 


The East Meadow. 


25. 


Mineral Spring Building. 


53. 


The Pool. 


26. 


Site for Refectory. 


54. 


The Loch. 


27. 


The Lake. 


55. 


Mount St. Vincent House of Re 


28. 


The Bow Bridge. 




freshment. 


29. 


Ladies' Cottage. 


56. 


The Nursery. 


30. 


Balcony Bridge. 


57. 


Old Fortification. 


31. 


West Carriage Step— entrance to 


58. 


Harlem Lake. 




Ramble. 


59. 


The Cliffs. 


32. 


Schiller's Monument. 


60. 


Block House, War of 1812. 


S3. 


Gentlemen's Cottage. 


61. 


The Briars. 


34. 


The Ramble. 


62. 


Seventh Regiment Monument. 


35. 


The Tunnel. 


63. 


The Great Hill. 


36. 


The Belvedere. 


64. 


Deer Paddock. 


37. 


The Cedars. 


65. 


Sheep Cote. 


38. 


East Carriage Step — entrance to 


66. 


Fifth Avenue Plaza and Fountam. 




Ramble. 


67. 


The Circle. 


39. 


Evergreen Walk. 


68. 


Arbor. 


40. 


Site of Morse Statue. 


69. 


Bridge or Archway. 


41. 


Conservatory Lake. 


70. 


Cascade. 


42. 


The Conservatory. 


71. 


Drinking Fountain. 


43. 


Proposed Art Museum and Hall. 


72. 


Horse Drinking Place. 


44. 


The Maze. 


73. 


Boat Landing. 


45. 


South Gate House, 


74. 


Summer House. 



Hackney Coaches — Central Park. 

Besolved, That the rates of fare to be charged for the use of such coaches shall 
lie as follows : All around the Park, with the privilege of keeping the coach, 
two hours, /oz^?' dollars ; principal parts of the Park, three dallars; to Casino and 
Lake, and return, two dollars ; when engaged by the hour, two dollars per hour; 
when for three or more hours, each one dollar and fifty cents per hour ; and be it 
further 

Resolved, That drivers of coaches hired to drive in the said Park are hereby 
required to wear a badge displayed on the left breast, in the shape of a shield, 
not to exceed two inches in diameter, and to have the number of each coach 
thereon, and to be worn continually when waiting for hire. 

Resolved, That all ordinances or parts of ordinances, inconsistent or conflicting 
"with the provisions of the foregoing resolutions, are hereby annulled, rescinded, 
and repealed.— Approved by the Mayor, July 17, 1866. 

STANDS DESIGNATED BY ORDER OF THE MAYOR. 

All Hackney Coaches waiting for hire to be driven in the Central Park, may 
stand at all times, Sundays included, at the following places, viz ; west Fifty- 
ninth street, from Fifth to Eighth avenue, south side ; west Seventy- 



160 NEW YOKK AS IT IS. 

second street, from Third avenue, 100 feet west ; also in Seventy-seeond street, 
from Eighth avenue to Ninth avenue ; Eightli avenue, from Sixty-lirst to Sixty- 
third stl'eet, west side ; Fifth avenue, from Seventy-first to Seventy-second 
street, and 110th street, between Fifth avenue and Eighth avenue. 

Central Park Stages 

Carry Passengers around the Parle for 25 cents each passenger, having a fixed 
route, from the Stand at entrance and return. 



CITY HACKNEY COACHES. 

There are now 894 licensed Coaches in New York. These occupy the hack 
stands in various parts of the City, are compelled to display a number, and have 
their rates of fare regulated by ordinance. 

In addition to these, there are 740 " Special Coaches," which do not occupy 
the Stands, and are not numbered, and for which the fare is a master of bargain. 

An Ordinance amending the ordinances entitled " Ordinances for the govern- 
ment of Hackney Coaches in the City of New York," passed October 7, 1874. 
The Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York, in Commoa 
Council convened, do ordain as follows: 

The title third of said ordinances shall be amended so as to read as follows : 
Title Third of the Rates and Prices of Fares. 

The prices or rates of fares to be taken or paid to the owners or drivers of 
hackney coaches or carriages shall be as follows : 

1st. For conveying a passenger any distance not exceeding one mile, ^^2^ 
cents; for conveying two passengers the same distance, seventy-five cents^ or 
thirty-seven and a half cents each ; and for every additional passenger, thirty-seven^ 
and a half cents. 

2d. For conveying a passenger any distance exceeding a mile, and within two 
miles, seventy-five cents ; and for every additional passenger, thirty-seven and a 
half cents. 

3d. For the use of a hackney coach or carriage by the hour, with one or more 
passengers, with the privilege of going from place to place, and stopping as 
often as may be required, one dollar an hour. 

4th. In all cases where the hiring of a hackney coach or carriage is not at the 
time thereof specified to be by the day or hour,~it shall be deemed to be by the 
mile. 

6th. For children between two and fourteen years of age, half price is only to 
be charged ; and for children under two years of age, no charge is to be made. 

6th. Whenever a hackney coach or carriage shall be detained, excepting as 
aforesaid, the owner or driver shall be allowed after the rate of seventy -five cents 
per hour. 

Approved by the Mayor, October 7, 1874. 

Francis J. Twomey, Clerk C. C. 

CARTMEN OR DRAYMEN. 

There are now (1876) 6,767 public carts in New York, engaged in draying and 
similar work. Rates established by law, but it is necessary to make special 
contracts. 



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ALPHABETICAL LIST OF AVENUES, STREETS, ETC. 

EN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 



Abattoir place, 
Abingdon place, 
Abingdon square, 
Ackerman place, 
Albany street, 
Albion place, 
Allen street, 
Amity, now called 

W. Third, 
Amity place, 
Ann street, 
Asliland place, 
Astor place. 
Attorney street, 
Avenue A, 
Avenue B, 
Avenue C, 
Avenue D, 
Avenue, First, 
Avenue, Second, 
Avenue, Third, 
Avenue, Fourth, 
Avenue, Fifth, 
Avenue, Sixth, 
Avenue, Seventh, 
Avenue, Eighth, 
Avenue, Ninth, 
Avenue, Tenth, 
Avenue, Eleventh, 
Avenue Twelfth, 
Bank street, 
Barclay street, 
Barrow street, 
Batavia street, 
Battery place, 
Baxter street, 
Bayard street. 
Beach street, 
Beaver street, 
Bedford street, 
Beekman street, 
Belvidere place, 
Benson street, 
Bethune street, 
Bible House, 
Billings' row, 
Birmingham street, 



West 39th street, between Eleventh avenue and N. R. 

West Twelfth, between Eighth avenue and Greenwich. 

on Bleecker, Bank, Hudson and Eighth avenue. 

New Chambers, between Chatham and William. 

from 123 Greenwich, west to North River. 

from 56 to 78 East Fourth street. 

from 104 Division, north to East HoustoUo 

from 681 Bowery, west to Sixth avenue. 

Laurens street, between Bleecker and Amity. 

from 222 Broadway, east to Gold street. 

Perry street, between Greenwich avenue and Waverly pi. 

from 744 Broadway, east to Fourth avenue. 

from 236 Division, north to East Houston. 

from 230 East Houston, north to East River. 

from 296 East Houston, north to East River. 

from 358 East Houston, north to East River. 

from 422 East Houston, north to East River. 

from 164 East Houston, north to Harlem River. 

from 118 East Houston, north to Harlem River. 

from 402 Bowery, north to Harlem River. 

from 402 Bowery, north to Harlem River. 

from 57 Waverly place, north to Harlem River. 

from 1 Carmine, north to Harlem River. 

from 72 Greenwich avenue, north to Harlem River, 

from Abingdon square, north to Harlem River. 

from Gansevoort, north to Harlem River. 

from 542 West street, north to Harlem River. 

from 550 West Fourteenth, north to W. 55th 

from the foot of West Fourteenth street, north. 

from 85 Greenwich avenue, west to North River. 

from 229 Broadway, West to North River. 

from 59 West Washington place, west to North River. 

from 78 Roosevelt, east to James. 

from 1 Broadway, west to North River. 

from 136 Chatham, north to Grand. 

from 82 Division, west to Baxter. 

from 134 West Broadway, west to North River. 

from 8 Broadway, east to Pearl. 

from 184 West Houston, north to Christopher. 

from 34 Park row, southeast to East River. 

West 30th, between Ninth and Tenth avenues. 

from 109 Leonard, north. 

from 782 Greenwich, west to North River, 

on Eighth and Ninth streets, and Third and Fourth aves. 

West 50th street, between 8th and Ninth avenues. 

from 84 Henry, south to 137 Madisou. 



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NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



Bishop's lane, 
Bleecker street, 
Bloomingdale road. 
Bond street, 
Boorman place, 
Boorman terrace, 
Boulevard place. 
Boulevard, 

Bowery, 
Bowling Green, 
Brevoort place. 
Bridge street. 
Broad street, 
Broadway, 
Broadway alley, 
Broome street, 
Burling slip, 
Camden place. 
Canal street. 
Cannon street, 
Carlisle street. 
Carmine street, 
Caroline street, 
Carroll place, 
Caatharine street, 
Catharine lane, 
Catharine market, 
Catharine slip. 
Cedar street, 
Centre street. 
Centre market, 
Centre market place, 
Chambers street, 
Charles street, 
Charles lane, 
Charlton street, 
Chatham stnet, 
Chatham square, 
Chelsea lots, 
Cherry street. 
Chestnut street, 
Christopher street, 
Chrystie street. 
Church street, 
City Hall place, 
City Hall square, 
Clarke street, 
Clarkson street. 
Cliff street, 
Clinton street. 



from 174 Chambers, south to "Warren. 

from 318 Bowery, west and north to Eighth avenue. 

Broadway, north to Harlem River. 

from 658 Broadway, east to Bowery. 

West 33d, between Eighth and Ninth avenues. 

West 33d, between Eighth and Ninth avenues. 

from West 130th, bet. Fifth & Sixth avenus. 

from West 59th and Eighth avenue to West Seventieth 

and Tenth avenue, extending to Bloomingdale rd. 
from 210 Chatham, north to Fourth avenue, 
from 2 AVhitehall, west to State. 

East Tenth street, between University pi. and Broadway.* 
from 15 State, east to Broad, 
from 21 Wall, south to East River, 
from 1 Battery place, north to Bloomingdale road, 
from 153 East 20th, north to East 27th. 
from East River west to Hudson street, 
from 234 Pearl, southeast to East River. 
East Eleventh, between Avenues B and C. 
from 179 East Broadway to North River, 
from 540 Grand, north to East Houston, 
from 112 Greenwich, west to North River, 
from 1 Sixth avenue, w^est to Varick. 
from 211 Duane, north to Jay. 
Bleecker street, between Laurens and Thompson, 
from Bowery, south to Cherry, 
from 50 Elm , west to 344 Broadway, 
foot of Catharine street, 
from 115 Cherry, south to East River, 
from 181 Pearl, west to North River, 
from the Park, north to Broome. 
Centre to Grand street, 
from 172 Grand, north to Broome, 
from 60 Chatham, west to North River, 
from 27 Greenwich avenue, west to North River, 
from 694 Washington, west to West street, 
from 29 Macdougal, west to North River, 
from City Hall square, east to Chatham square, 
from 2 Catharine to East Broadway. 
West 24th, between Ninth and Tenth avenues, 
from 1 Dover, east to East River, 
from 8 Oak, north to Madison, 
from 5 Greenwich avenue, west to North River, 
from 44 Division, north to East Houston, 
from 6 Morris street, north to Canal street, 
from 15 Chambers northeast to Pearl, 
between Tryon row and Spruce street, 
from 538 Broome, north to Spring, 
from 225 Varick, west to North River, 
from 101 John, northeast to Hague, 
from 295 East Houston, south to East River. 



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Clinton alley, 
Clinton court, 
Clinton market, 
Clinton place, 
Coenties alley, 
Coenties slip. 
College place, 
Collesten street, 
Columbia street, 
Columbia place. 
Commerce street. 
Congress street. 
Congress place. 
Cooper Union, 
Corlears street, 
Cornelia street, 
Cortlandt street, 
Cortlandt alley, 
Cottage place, 
Collays place, 
Crosby street, 
Cuyler's alley, 
Davies place, 
Decatur place, 
Delancey street, 
Depau place, 
Depau row, 
Depeyster street, 
Desbrosses street, 
Dey street, 
Division street, 
Dixon's row, 
Dominick street, 
Donovan's lane, 
Dover street. 
Downing street, 
Doyers street. 
Dry Dock, 
Duane street, 
Duncomb place, 
Dunham place, 
Dutch street. 
East street, 
East Broadway, 
East Clinton place, 
East Gotham place. 
East Houston, 
East place. 
East Fourth, 
East 10th street. 



from 97 Clinton to 104 Suffolk. 

from 120 Clinton place. 

west corner Canal street. 

from 755 Broadway, west to Sixth avenue. 

from 73 Pearl, northwest to Stone street. 

from 66 Pearl, south to East River. 

from 53 Barclay, north to Chambers. 

from 51 Beach, north to Laight. 

from 520 Grand, north to East Houston. 

386 Eighth street. 

from 272 Bleecker, west to Barrow. 

from 177 West Houston, south to King. 

opposite 3 Congress street. 

on Eighth street and Third and Fourth avenues. 

from 587 Grand, south to East River 

from 160 West Fourth, west to Bleecker. 

from 171 Broadway, west to North River. 

from 270 Canal, south to Franklin. 

Hancock street. 

Third street, between Avenues B and C. 

from 28 Howard, north to Bleecker. 

from 28 South street, west to Water. 

West 36th, between Broadway and Sixth avenue. 

Seventh street, from 96 to 114. 

from 181 Bowery, east to East River. 

185 and 187 Thompson street. 

154 to 158 Bleecker street. 

from 139 Water street to East River. 

from 195 Hudson, to North River. 

from 192 Broadway, west to North River. 

from 1 Bowery, east to Grand. 

West 110th, from Bloomingdale to Ninth avenue. 

from 13 Clarke, west to Hudson. 

rear 474 Pearl street. 

from 340 Pearl, south to East River. 

from 210 Bleecker, west to Varick. 

from 205 Chatham, west and north to Pearl. 

from 243 East Tenth street, north to East Twelfth. 

from 40 Rose, west to North River. 

East 128th, from Second to Third avenues. 

rear 140 West 33d street. 

from 49 John, north to Fulton street. 

from 755 Water, east to Rivington. 

from 207 Chatham, east to Grand. 

rear 50 Clinton street. 

from 138 Cherry street. 

from 609 Broadway, east to East River. 

rear 214 Third street. 

from 696 Broadway, east to East River. 

to East 129th, east from Fifth avenue to East River. 



East Tompkins place, 159 to 165 East 11th street. 



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NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



Edgar street. 
Eighth street, 
Eldridge street, 
Elizabeth street, 
Elm street, 
Essex street, 
Essex market, 
Essex market place, 
Everett row. 
Exchange alley, 
Exchange place. 
Extra place. 
Ferry street. 
Fifth street. 
First street, 
Fitzroy place, 
Fletcher street, 
Forsyth street, 
Frankfort street, 
Franklin street, 
Franklin market, 
Franklin alley, 
Franklin square, 
Franklin terrace, 
Front street, 
Fulton street, 
Fulton market, 
Gansevoort street, 
Garden row, 
Gay street, 
Gilford place. 
Glover place, 
Goerck street. 
Gold street, 
Gouverneur street, 
Gouverneur lane, 
Gouverneur market, 
Gouverneur slip, 
Gramercy park, 
Gramercy place. 
Grand street, 
Great Jones street, 
Greene street, 
Greenwich street, 
Greenwich avenue, 
Grove street, 
Hague street, 
Hall place, 
Hamersley place, 
Hamilton street, 
Hamilton place. 



from 59 Greenwich, east to Trinity place, 

from 94 Sixth avenue, east to East River. 

from 86 Division, north to East Houston. 

from 52 Bayard, north to Bleecker. 

from 12 Reade, north to Spring street. 

from 162 Division, north to East Houston. 

Essex cor. Grand street. 

from 68 Ludlow to Essex. 

from 64 West 34th street to 6th avenue. 

from 55 Broadway, west to Trinity place. 

from 2 Hanover, west to Broadway. 

rear of 10 First street. 

from 84 Gold street, east to Pearl. 

from 379 Bowery, east to East River. 

from 303 Bowery, east to Avenue A. 

357 West 28th street. 

from 820 Pearl, South to East River. 

from 68 Division, north to East Houston. 

from 166 Nassau, east to Pearl. 

from 64 Baxter, west to North River. 

Old Slip. 

from 70 Franklin, north to White. 

from Cherry to Pearl. 

rear 364 West 26th street. 

from 49 Whitehall, E. to Roosevelt street, and E. to E. R. 

from 93 South, west to North River. 

Fulton corner South. 

from 355 West 4th, west to North River. 

rear of 138 West 11th. 

from 141 Waverly place, north to Christopher. 

East 45th street, from Lexington to Third avenue. 

Thompson street, between Spring and Prince. 

from 574 Grand, north to East River. 

from 87 Maiden lane, north to Frankfort. 

from 275 Division, south to Water. 

from 48 South to Water. 

see Gouverneur slip. 

from 371 South, north to Water. 

between Third and Fourth avenues and 20th and 21st. 

East 20th, from 100 to 146. 

from 80 Varick, east to East River. 

from 682 Broadway, east to Bowery. 

from 331 Canal, north to Clinton place. 

from 4 Battery place, north to Gansevoort. 

from 105 Sixth avenue, north to Eighth avenue. 

from 488 Hudson, east to Waverly place. 

from 367 Pearl, west to Cliff street. 

from 2 Sixth, north to Seventh. 

West Houston, between McDougal and Congress. 

from 73 Catharine, east to Market. 

West 51st, between Broadway and Eighth avenue. 



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Hancock street, from 176 West Houston, north Bleecker. 

Hanover street, from 57 Wall, south to Pearl street. 

Hanover square, on Pearl, from 105 to Stone street. 

Hanson place, Second avenue, between 124th and East 125th streets. 

Harrison street, from 81 Hudson, west to North River. 

Harwood place. East 78th street, between Third and Fourth avenues. 

Henry street, from 14 Oliver, east to Grand street. 

Herman place, rear 220 East Fourth street. 

Hester street, from 216 Division, west to Centre. 

Hoboken street, from 476 Washington, west to North River. 

Holywood place, East 83d, between Second and Third avenues. 

Horatio street, from 129 Greenwich avenue, west to North River. 

Howard street, from 201 Centre, west to Mercer. 

Hubert street, from 149 Hudson, west to North River. 

Hudson street, from 139 Chambers, north to Ninth street. 

Hudson place. West 34tli, between Ninth and Tenth avenues. 

Irving place, from 81 East Fourteenth street, north to East Twentieth. 

Jackson street, from 338 Henry, south to East River. 

Jackson place, rear 916 Downing street. 

Jacob street, from 19 Ferry, north to Frankfort. 

James street, from 175 Chatham, south to James slip. 

James slip, from 77 Cherry, south to East River. 

Jane street, from 113 Greenwich avenue, west to North River. 

Jauncey court, 37, 39, 41 and 43 Wall street. 

Jay street, from 61 Hudson, west to North River. 

Jefferson street, from 179 Division, south to East River. 

Jefferson Market, Sixth avenue, corner Greenwich avenue. 

Jersey street, from 127 Crosby, east to Mulberry. 

John street, from 184 Broadway, east to Pearl street. 

Jones street, from 176 West Fourth, west to Bleecker. 

Jones' lane, from 101 Front street, south to East River. 

Johnson's road. West loth, from 477 to 495. 

King street, from 41 Macdougal, west to North River. 

Kirkpatrick place, 74th, between Fifth and Madison avenues. 

Knapp's place, rear 422 East Tenth street. 

Lafayette place, from 8 Great Jones street, north to Eighth. 

Laight street, from 398 Canal, west to North River. 

Lamartine place. West 29th, between Eighth and Ninth avenues. 

Laurens street, from 375 Canal, west to Amity. 

Laurence street, from West 126th, n Ninth avenue, to West '129th. 

Leandert's place, 183 Seventh street. 

Lenox place. West 22d, between Eighth and Ninth avenues. 

Leonard street, from 92 Hudson, east to Baxter. 

Leroy street, from 338 Bleecker, west to North River. 

Leroy place, Bleecker street, between Mercer and Greene. 

Lewis street, from 556 Grand street, north to Eighth 

Lexington avenue, from 82 East 21st street, north to East 63d. 

Liberty street, from 76 Maiden lane, west to North River. 

Liberty court, 4 and 6 Liberty place. 

Liberty place, from 57 Liberty, north to Maiden lane. 

Xispenard street, from 157 West Broadway, east to Broadway. 



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NEW YOKK AS IT IS. 



Little Twelfth street 
Livingston place, 
London terrace, 
Lord's court, 
Ludlow street, 
Ludlow place, 
Macdougal street, 
Madison street, 
Madison avenue, 
Madison court, 
Madison square. 
Maiden lane, 
Mangin street, 
Manhattan, 
Manhattan, 
Manhattan place, 
Mansfield place, 
Marion street. 
Market street, 
Markefield, 
Martin terrace, 
Mechanic alley, 
Mechanic place, 
Mercer street. 
Miller's place, 
Milligan place, 
Millward place, 
Minetta street, 
Minetta lane, 
Minetta place. 
Mission place, 
Mitchell place, 
Monroe street, 
Monroe place, 
Montgomery, 
Moore street, 
Morgan block, 
Morris street, 
Morris place, 
Morton street, 
Mott street, 
Mt. Morris place. 
Mulberry street, 
Murray street, 
Nassau street, 
Neilson place, 
New street, 
New Bowery, 
New Chambers st., 
Ninth street, 
Norfolk street. 



.Gansevoort, west to North River. 

from 325 East 15th, north to East 17th. 

West 23d street, between Ninth and Tenth avenues, 

rear 51 Beaver street. 

from 144 Division, north to East Houston. 

West Houston street, between Sullivan and MacdougaL 

from 219 Spring, north to Clinton place. 

from 426 Pearl, east to Grand street. 

from 29 East 23d, north to Harlem River. 

rear 237 Madison street. 

north East 26th, between Fifth and Madison avenues. 

from 172 Broadway, southeast to East River. 

from 590 Grand, north to East River. 

from 444 East Houston, north to Third. 

from West 125th, near Ninth avenue, to Twelfth avenue 

from 10 Elm, west and south to Reade. 

West 51st, between Eighth and Ninth avenues, 

from 404 Broome, north. 

from 61 Division, south to East River. 

from 1 Whitehall, east to Broad. 

East 30th street, between Second and Third avenues.. 

from 72 Monroe to Cherry street. 

rear 28 Avenue A. 

from 311 Canal, north to Clinton place. 

rear 4 Macdougal street. 

rear 139 Sixth avenue. 

West 31st street, between Eighth and Ninth avenues; 

from 205 Bleecker, north to Minetta lane. 

from 113 Macdougal, west to Sixth avenue. 

rear 2 Minetta street. 

from 58 Park, north to Worth. 

East 49th street, between First avenue and Avenue A. 

from 59 Catharine, east to Grand. 

Monroe street, from 207 to 213. 

from 247 Division street to East River. 

from 30 Pearl, South to East River. 

Second avenue, between 77th and 78th> 

from 37 Broadway, north to North River. 

West 42d street, between Tenth and Eleventh avenues. 

from 256 Bleecker, west to North River. 

from 176 Chatham, north to Bleecker. 

West 124th, between Fifth and Sixth avenue. 

from 156 Chatham, north to Bleecker. 

from 247 Broadway, west to North River. 

from 20 Wall, north to Chatham. 

Mercer street, between Waverly place and Eighth avenue^ 

from 7 Wall street, south to Beaver. 

from 896 Pearl, north to Chatham. 

from 67 Chatham, east to Cherry. 

from 1 Sixth avenue, east to East River. 

from 180 Division, north to East Houston. 



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North Moore street, from 122 West Broadway, west to North River. 
North William street,from 16 Frankfort, north to Chatham. 



Nyack place, 
Oak street, 
Old slip, 
Oliver street, 
Orchard street. 
Pacific place. 
Pagoda place. 
Park street. 
Park avenue, 
Park place. 
Park row, 
Patchin place. 
Pearl street. 
Pearl street exten., 
Peck slip, 
Pelham street, 
Pell street. 
Perry street, 
Phelpsplace, 
Pike street. 
Pine street, 
Pitt street, 
Piatt street, 
Prince street, 
Rachel street, 
Randall place, 
Reade street. 
Rector street, 
Renwick street. 
Ridge street, 
Rivington street, 
Rivington place, 
Robinson street, 
Roosevelt street, 
Rose street 
Roslyn place, 
Russell place, 
Rutgers street, 
Rutgers place, 
Rutherford place, 
Ryder's alley, 
St. Bridget's place, 
St. Clement's place, 

St . George's place, 
St. John's lane, 
St. Luke's place, 
St. Mark's place, 
St. Nicholas av., 



rear 149 Bank street. 

from 392 Pearl, east to Catharine. 

from 106 Pearl, south to East River. 

from 62 New Bowery, south to East River. 

from 124 Division, north to East Houston. 

rear 133 Vf est 29th street. 

foot East 120th street. 

from 36 Centre, east to Mott. 

Fourth avenue, from East 34tli to East 39th. 

from 237 Broadway, west to College place. 

from 1 Ann street, east to Spruce street. 

rear 111 West 10th street. 

from 14 State, east and north to Broadway. 

from 318 Broadway, west to Hudson. 

from 312 Pearl, east to South street. 

from 96 Monroe, east to Cherry, 

from 18 Bowery, west to Mott. 

from 55 Greenwich avenue, west to North River. 

East 30th street, between First and Second avenues. 

from 107 Division street, south to East River. 

from 106 Broadway, east to East River. 

from 276 Division, north to East Houston 

from 121 Pearl, west to William street. 

from 230 Bowery, west to Maedougal street. 

from 4 Goerck, east to Mangin street. 

Ninth street, between Broadway and University place. 

from 22 Duane, west to North River. 

from 73 Broadway, west to North River. 

from 506 Canal, north to Spring street. 

from 254 Division, north to East Houston street. 

from 213 Bowery, east to East River. 

rear 316 Rivington street. 

from 4 College place, west to North River. 

from 147 Chatham, south to East River. 

from 34 Frankfort, northeast to Pearl street. 

Greene street, between Amity and West Fourth streets. 

Greenwich avenue, Charles and Perry streets. 

from 26 Canal, south to East River. 

Monroe street, from Jefferson to Clinton streets. 

from 224 East 17th, south to East 14th street. 

from 68 Fulton to Gold street. 

rear 185 Seventh street. 

Maedougal street, from West Houston to Bleecker, and 

from Waverly place to Clinton place. 
East 13th street, between First and Second avenues, 
from 9 Beach street, north to Laight street. 
Leroy street, from 63 to 99. 

8th street, from 17 Third avenue, east to Avenue A. 
from West 110th and Sixth ave. to W. 145th and Ninth av. 



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NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



St. Timothy's place, 
Scammel street, 
Second street, 
Seventh street, 
Sheriff street. 
Sixth street, 
Sixth St. court 
Sniffin street, 
South street, 
South Fifth avenue, 
South William street; 
Spingler street, 
Spring street, 
Spruce street, 
Stanton street, 
Ssanton place. 
Staple street. 
State street. 
Stone street, 
Stryker's lane, 
Stryker's row, 
Stuyvesant street, 
Suftblk street, 
Sullivan street, 
Temple street, 
Thomas street. 
Theatre alley. 
Third street, 
Thirteenth avenue, 
Thomas street, 
Thompson street, 
Tinpot alley, 
Tompkins 
Tompkins market, 
Trinity place, 
Tryon row. 
Union street, 
Union market. 
Union place, 
University place, 
Vandam street, 
Vandewater street. 
Van Nest place, 
Varick street, 
Varick place, 
Vesey stre-et. 
Vestry street, . 
Walker street. 
Wall street, 
Warren street, 
Warren place. 



W. 52d, between Broadway and Eighth avenue. 
from 299 East Broadway to Water street, 
from 223 Bowery, east to Avenue D. 
from Fourth avenue, east to East River, 
from 503 Grand, north to Second street, 
from 395 Bowery, east to East River, 
rear 169 Sixth street, 
rear 154 East 36th street, 
from 06 Whitehall, east to East River, 
from OS Washington square, south to Canal street, 
from 7 William, west to Broad. 
East 15th street, between Fifth avenue and Broadway, 
from 188 Bowery, west to North River, 
from 41 Park row, southeast to Gold, 
from 245 Bowery, east to East River. 
rear 8 Stanton street. 

from 109 Duane, north to Harrison street, 
from 48 Whitehall to Broadway, 
from 13 Whitehall, cast to William street, 
rear 743 Eleventh avenue. 

West 52d street, bet. Tenth and Eleventh avenues, 
from 2 Third avenue, east to Second avenue, 
from 202 Division, north to East Houston, 
from 415 Canal, north to Amity street, 
from 88 Liberty, south to Thomas street, 
from 111 Broadway, west to Greenwich street, 
from 19 Ann, north to Beekman street, 
from 3 15 Bowery, east to East River. 
from ft. W^est Eleventh, northwest to ft. West 29th street, 
from 126 Church, w. to Hudson, and east to Broadway, 
from 395 Canal, north to West Fourth street, 
from 59 Greenwich to Trinity place, 
from 606 Grand, cast to East River. 
Third avenue, corner 6th street, 
from 98 Liberty, south to Tinpot alley, 
from 1 Centre, east to 36 Chatham street, 
rear 53 University place. 
East Houston, corner Columbia street, 
from 156 to 23 Fourth ave., and from 851 to 857 B'way. 
from 31 Waverly place, north to East 14th. 
from 13 Macdougal, west to Greenwich, 
from 54 Frankfort, east to Pearl. 
Charles street, between Bleecker and West Fourth, 
from 130 Franklin, north to Carmine. 
Sullivan street, between West Houston and Bleecker. 
from Broadway, opposite Ann street, west to North River, 
from 428 Canal street, west to North River, 
from 135 West Broadway, east to Canal street, 
from 86 Broadway, east to East River, 
from 260 Broadway, west to North River. 
Charles street, between Greenwich ave. and Waverly pi. 



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Washington street, 
Washington marliet, 
Wasliington place, 
Washington square, 
Water street. 
Watts street, 
Waverly place, 
Weehawken street, 
Wesley place, 
West street. 
West Third street. 
West Broadway, 
West B'way place. 
West Houston street, 
WestWashington pi 
West Fourth street, 
W 9th to W. 59th, 
White street, 
White's place, 
Whitehall street, 
Willett street, 
William street. 
Willow terrace, 
Winthrop place, 
Wooster street, 
Worth street, 
Wyoming place, 
York street. 



from 6 Battery place, north to West Twelfth. 
Fulton, corner West street, 
from 713 Broadway, west to Wooster. 
surrounding Wash'n park, bet. W. Fourth and Waverley pi. 
from 41 Whitehall, east to East River, 
from 44 Sullivan, west to North River, 
from 727 Broadway, west and north to Bank street, 
from 304 West Tenth, south to Christopher. 
Mulberry street, from East Houston to Bleecker. 
from 12 Battery place, north to Tenth avenue, 
from Broadway, west to Sixth avenue, 
from 131 Chambers, north to Canal street. 
South Fifth avenue, between Canal and Grand. 
, from 609 Broadway, west to North River. 
,from 155 Macdougal, west to Grove street. 
from 697 Broadway, west to West Thirteenth, 
from Fifth avenue, west to North River, 
from 117 West Broadway, east to Chatham sq. 
rear 214 West Eighteenth street, 
from 2 Broadway, south to East River, 
from 482 Grand, north to East Houston, 
from 107 Pearl, northeast to Pearl street. 
East 73d street, near Third avenue, 
Greene street, between Clinton place and Waverly ulace. 
from 355 Canal, north to West Fourth, 
from 72 Hudson, east to Chatham. 
Elizabeth, between East Houston and Bleecker. 
from 9 St. John's lane, east to West Broadway. 



NEW YORK CITY CAR ROUTES. 



Broadway and University Place 
liine. — Leaves corner Broadway and 
Barclay st. Runs through Barclay st. 
to Church, to Canal, to Green, to Clin- 
ton pi., to University pi., to Union sq,, 
to Broadway, to 7th av., to Fifty-ninth 
St., to Central Park. Returns by same 
route to University pi. , to Wooster st, , 
crosses Canal st, to West Broadway, to 
College pi., to Barclay St., to starting 
point. Fare, 5 cents. 

Broadway and Broome St. Line. — 

Leaves corner Broadway and Broome 
st. Runs through Broome st, to Green 
st,, and thence by same route as Broad- 
way and Barclay st. line. Returns by 
same route as Broadway and Barclay 
st, line to Broome st, , thence to Broad- 
way. Fare, 5 cents. 



Sixth Avenue Line. — Leaves corner 
Broadway and Vesey st. Runs through 
Vesey st. to Church st. , to Chambers 
St. , to West Broadway, to Canal st. , to 
Varick st,, to Carmine st,, to Sixth av,, 
to Fifty-ninth st. and Central Park. 
Returns by the same route, to West 
Broadway, to College pi., to Vesey st., 
to corner Broadway ; runs all night. 
Fare, 5 cents. 

Sixth Avenue, Broadway and 
Canal Street Line. — Leaves corner 
Broadway and Canal st. Runs through 
Canal st. to Varick st. , thence by same 
route as Sixth av, line. Returns by 
same route. Fare, 5 cents. 

Seventh Avenue Line. — Leaves 
Broadway and Barclay st. Runs 
through Barclay st. to Church, to Canal, 



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NEW YOKK AS IT IS. 



to Sullivan, to Amity, to Macdougal, to 
Clinton pi., to Greenwich av., to 
Seventh av., to Fifty-ninth street and 
Central Park. Returns by same route, 
to Sullivan st. , to West Broadway, to 
College pi., to Barclay St., to Broad- 
way, Fare, 5 cents. 

Eighth Avenue Line. — Leaves 
Broadway and Vesey St. Runs through 
Vesey st. to Church, to Chambers, to 
West Broadway, to Canal st. , to Hud- 
son, to Eighth av., to Fifty-ninth st. 
and Central Park, lleturm by same 
route to Chambers St., to College pi., 
to Vesey St., to Broadway. This line 
runs every 15 minutes all night. 

Eighth Avenue, Broadway and 
Canal Street Line. — Leaves Broadway 
and Canal si., to Hudson st., thence up 
and down same route as Eighth av. to 
Macomb's Dam, return iug to Canal st. 
and Broadway. Fare, 5 cents to Fifty- 
ninth St. ; to Macomb's Dam, 10 cents. 

Ninth Avenue Line. — Leaves Broad- 
way and Fulton st. Runs through 
Fulton St. to Greenwich, to Ninth av., 
to Fifty-fourth st. Returns by same 
route to Washington St., to Fulton, to 
Broadway. Fare, 5 cents. 

Second Avenue Line. — Leaves foot 
of Peck Slip. Runs through South St., 
to Oliver, to Bowery, to Grand St., to 
Chrystie, to Houston, to Second av., to 
128tli St. , Harlem. Returns by Second 
av. , to Twenty-third st. , to First av. , to 
Houston St., to Allen, to Grand, to 
Bowery, to Chatham st., to Pearl, to 
Starting point. Cars run from Peck 
Slip all night ; cars run from G3d st. all 
night. Fare, 5 cents to G3d st. 

Third Avenue Line. — Leaves Broad- 
way, opposite Astor House. Runs 
through Park Row to Chatham st. , to 
Bowery, to Third av. , to Sixty-fifth st. , 
thence to Harlem, Returns by same 
route. Cars on this line run all night. 
This road commenced running in 1853.* 



Branch Line. — Runs from Broad- 
way through Bowery and Third av., 
to 35th St. , thence through Lexington 
av. to 42d St. , Grand Central Railroad 
Depot. Fare, 5 cents. 

Fourth Avenue Line. — Leaves 
Broadway, opposite the Astor House. 
Runs through Park Row, to Centre st,, 
to Grand, to Bowery, to Fourth av,, to 
Thirty-second st. Every third car con- 
tinues through Thirty-second st,, to 
Lexington av., to Thirty-fourth St., ta 
Hunter's Point Ferr3\ Returns by same 
route, to Broome St., to Centre, to 
starting point. Fare, 6 cents. 

Central Park, North River and 
Tenth Avenue Line. — Leaves South 
Ferry. Runs through Whitehall st., to 
Marketfield, to Bowling Green, to Bat- 
tery pi., to West St., to Tenth av., tO' 
Fifty-ninth st. , to Central Park. Returns 
by same route. Fare, 5 cents. 

Central Park, East River and Av- 
enue A Line. — Leaves South Ferry,, 
foot of Whitehall st. Runs through 
Whitehall st,, to front, to Old Slip, to 
South st,, to Grand, to Goerck, to 
Houston, to Avenue D, to Fourteenth 
St., to Avenue A, to Twenty-third St., 
to First av., to Fifty-ninth St., to Fifth 
av. and Central Park. Rettirns by Fifty- 
ninth St., takes same route to Avenue 
D and Seventh St., to Lewis, to Hous- 
ton, to Mangin, to Grand, to Corlears,. 
to Monroe, "to Jackson, to Front, to 
Water, to South Ferry. This road 
passes all the East River ferries. Fare, 
5 cents, 

Bleecker Street and Fulton Ferry 
Line. — Leaves Fulton Ferry. Runs 
through Fulton St., to William, to Ann, 
to Park Row, to Centre St., to Leonard, 
to Elm, to Howard, to Crosby, to 
Bleecker, to Macdougal, to Fourth, to 
W, Twelfth, to Hudson, to W. Four- 
teenth, to Tenth av. Returns by Tenth 
av., to Fourteenth st., to Hudson, to 



* The srant to the New York and Harlem Railroad, allowing a double or single track to be 
laid along Fourth Avenue, was dated January 9th, 1832. 



CITY OAK ROUTES. 



171 



Bleecker, to Crosby, to Howard, to Elm, 
to Reacle, to Centre, to Beekmaii, to 
South, to Fulton Ferry. Fare, 5 cents. 
Bleecker Street Branch. — Leaves 
Fulton Ferry. Runs through Fulton 
St., to Water, to Peck Slip, to Pearl, to 



New Bowery, to Bowery, to Canal St., 
to Elm, to Howard, to Crosby, thence 
by same route as the above road. 
Beturns by same route to Canal St., to 
Bowery, to New Bowery, to Pearl, to 
Peck Slip, to South, to Fulton Ferry. 



CROSS-TOWN ROUTES. 



Dry Dock and East Broadway 
Line. — Leaves Ann st. and Broadway. 
Runs through Park Row, to Chatham 
St., to East Broadway, to Grand st., to 
Columbia, to Avenue B, to East Four- 
teenth St., to Avenue A. Returns by 
Fourteenth st., to Avenue D, to Eighth 
St., to Lewis, to Grand, thence by same 
route to starting point. Fare, 5 cents. 

City Hall, Avenue B and 34th St. 
Line. — Leaves Ann st. and Bi-oadwa}^ 
Runs through Park Row, to Chatham 
St., to East Broadway, to Clinton st., 
to Avenue B, to Fourteenth st., to 
Avenue A, to Twenty-third st., to First 
av., to East Thirty-fourth St., to Ferry. 
Returns by same route, to Second st. , 
to Avenue A, to Essex St., to East 
Broadway, to Chatham St., to Park 
Row, to Ann st. and Broadway. Fare, 
5 cents. 

Forty-second and Grand Street 
Ferry Line. — From foot W. 42d to 
Tenth av., to W. 34th, to Broadway, to 
E. 23d, to Fourth av., toE. Fourteenth, 
to Avenue A, to E. Houston, to Can- 
non, to Grand, to Ferry. Returning 
through Grand to Goerck, to E. Hous- 
ton, to Second, to Avenue A, to East 
Fourteenth, to Seventh av., to East 
Twenty-third, to Broadway, to West 
Thirty-fourth, to Tenth av., to foot 
West Forty-second. 

Debrosses St., Vestry and Grand St. 
Line. — Leaves Grand st. Ferry. Runs 
through Grand St., to Sullivan, to 
Vestry, to Greenwich, to Desbrosses, 
to Desbrosses st. Ferry. Returm by 
Desbrosses st. , to Washington, to Ves- 
try, thence by same route to starting 
point. Fare, 5 cents. 



Grand St. Ferries to Jersey City 
Ferries — to Cortlandt st. Ferry, via 
Grand st. — East Broadway, Canal, 
Walker, North Moore and Washington 
sts., to Cortlandt st. Returns via Cort- 
landt, Greenwich, Beach, Lispenard, 
Canal, and Grand sts. 

Grand Street Ferries, to Broadway, 
corner of Canal st., via Grand ot.. East 
Broadway and Canal st. to Bi'oadway. 
Returns same route. Fare, 5 cents. 

Avenue C. — Runs from Fourth av.,, 
corner East 42d st., to Lexington av., 
to East Thirty-fifth, to First av., to 
East Twenty-third, to Avenue A, to 
East Seventeenth, to Avenue C, to 
Third, to First av., to East and West 
Houston, to West, to foot Chambers 
St. Returning through West St., to 
Charlton, to Prince, to Stanton, to Pitt, 
to Avenue C, to East Eighteenth, to 
Avenue A, to East Thirty-third, to First 
avenue, to East Thirty-sixth, to Lex- 
ington av., to East 42d, and Fourth av. 
Fare, G cents. 

Central Crois Town. — From foot 
East Twenty-third st. , to Avenue A, to 
East Eighteenth, to Broadway to East 
and West Fourteenth, to Seventh av, 
to West Eleventh, to Christopher. Re- 
turning through Christopher to Green- 
wich, to West Eleventh, to Seventh av., 
to West and East Fourteenth St., tO' 
Union sq., to East Seventeenth, to^ 
Avenue A, to East Twenty-third. Fare, 
5 cents. 

Christopher and East Tenth St. — 
From Christopher to Greenwich av., to 
Clinton pi. , to St. Mark's pi. , to Avenua 
A, to East Tenth, to Ferry. R&turninq 
through East Tenth to Avenue A, to 



172 



NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



lEast Ninth, to Stiiyvesant, to Eighth, 
to Clinton pi., to Greenwich av., to 
West Tenth, to West, to Christopher. 
JFare, 5 cents. 

Twenty-third Street Line. — Runs 
through Twenty-third St., from East to 
North River, connecting with the fer- 
ries, and all the north and south lines 
of street railroads on the different av- 
enues ; also, through Twenty-third st. 
to First av., and thence to Thirty-fourth 
■St, Ferry. Fare, 5 cents. 



125 Street. — Runs from Third ave. 
Corner East 130th st., through Third 
avenue to East 125th st., thence to 
West 125th, to North River. Beturning 
the same route. Fare, 5 cents. 

Harlem Bridge, Morrisania and 
Fordham. — Runs from Harlem Bridge 
up Third Avenue to Morrisania and 
Fordham, 43^ miles ; also, up Third 
Avenue to Boston Avenue and thence 
to West Farms, 3}^ miles. Beturning* 
the same route. Fare to Morrisania, 5 
cents ; through fare, 10 cents. 



OMNIBUS LINES. 

The Omnibus Lines commenced running through Broadway to Greenwich, 
in about 1832, and twenty years thereafter the Third Avenue Street cars com- 
menced running to Harlem. For several years Broadway was alive with Omni- 
buses ; but, as the Street Railroads increased, many of the Omnibus Lines were 
withdrawn. 

The following Omnibus Lines are still continued : 



Broadway and Fifth Avenue Line. — 
Leaves Fulton Ferry, E. R. , and runs 
through Fulton, Broadway, Fourteenth 
and Fifth avenue to Forty-seventh 
street. Returns the same route. Fare, 
10 cents. Office, 23 West 43d street. 

Broadway, Twenty-third and NintJi 
Avenue Line. — Leaves South Ferry and 
runs through Broadway, Twenty-third 
-and Ninth Avenue to Thirtieth street. 
Returns the same route. Fare, 10 cents. 
Office, 287 Ninth avenue. 

Broadway and Fourth Avenue Line. — 
Leaves South Ferry and runs through 
Broadway and Fourth avenue to Forty- 
second street and Grand Central Depot. 



Returns the same route. Fare, 10 cents. 
Office, 127 East Thirty-second street. 

Broadway, Twenty -third and Erie 
Bailroad Ferry. — Leaves South Ferry 
and runs through Broadway to West 
Twenty-third street to Ferry, North 
River. Returns the same route. Fare, 
10 cents. Office, 287 Ninth avenue. 

Madison Avenue Line. — Leaves Wall 
street Ferry and runs through Wall 
street to Broadway to Twenty-third 
street, thence through Madison avenue 
to Forty-second street and Grand Cen- 
tral Depot. Returns the same route. 
Fare, 10 cents. Office, 53 East Fortieth 
street. 



RAPID TRANSIT ROUTES. 

This important question, which has agitated property owners for the past 
fifteen years, has not yet been fully solved, or the routes established, in full. 
There are now two chartered companies organized, by acts of the Legislature of 
the State of New York, with sufficient powers to build parallel lines of Elevated 
Railways from the Battery and City Hall Park to Harlem River, terminating at 
different points, and running through different Avenues. 

The New York Elevated Railroad Company has completed their line 
between the Battery and Fifty-ninth street, running through Greenwich street 



RA^PID TRANSIT ROUTES — GAS-LIGHT COMPANIES. ITS 

and Ninth avenue to opposite the Southern end of Central Park, a distance of 
about five miles — Time Table P— Progress in Bapid Transit — The New York 
Elevated Railroad Company has completed its line to Fifty-ninth street, and 
begun running regular trains between Central Park and the Battery, according 
to a new time-table. The first train from the Battery will leave at 6 A. M. , and 
will run through to Fifty-ninth street in thirty-four minutes. The second train 
will leave at 7 o'clock, and will make the trip in thirty-one minutes. After 7 
o'clock the trains will be run with short intervals, the last one leaving the Bat- 
tery at 7 :07 P. M. From Fifty-ninth street, the first train will start at 6 :18 A. M. , 
and the last one at 7 :40 P. M. There will be forty through trains each way 
during the day. The company will also run Sunday trains between 7:35 A. M.^ 
and 6 :49 P. M. , with the same frequency as on week days. 

GILBERT ELEVATED RAILROAD COMPANY. 

The Gilbert Elevated Railroad Company has not yet begun laying its track, 
but the announcement is authorized that the company expects to build the west 
side division and have it in running order from the Bowling Green to Central 
Park by Aug. 1, 1876. The company is preparing drawings for the iron com- 
panies, and calculating in detail the amount of different kinds of iron that will 
be required in the construction of the railroad. "When these drawings and calcu- 
lations are completed, they will be open to the inspection of the iron companie^, 
all of which will be invited to send in bids for the building of the road. 

It is contemplated by this company to build two or three parallel lines of rail- 
road, through different avenues, connecting with steam ferries running to 
Long Island ; also, with the Grand Central Railroad Depot and Central Park. 
The line will start from the Battery, and City Hall Park and run north to Chat- 
ham square, from thence through Second and Third avenues to Harlem River, 
a distant of about eight miles. There will be a branch road connecting with the 
Brooklyn Bridge, and with Twenty-third Street Ferry, running to Green Point, 
connecting with Railways on Long Island. 

Another line is contemplated to run from the Battery, through New Church 
street. West Broadway and Sixth avenue to Central Park, a distance of about 
five miles. 



GAS-LIGHT COMPANIES. 

Continental, 38 Broadway. 

Equitable Gas Light and Construction Co., 59 Liberty street. 

Harlem, 2084 Third avenue and 61 Liberty street 

Manhattan Gas Light Co. Office, 4 Irving place. Works, foot Four- 
teenth street, East River, foot Eighteenth street, North River. Incorporated 
February 26th, 1830. Capital, $4,000,000 ; shares, $50. District : North side 
Grand to south side Thirty-fourth street, inclusive. Charles Roome, President; 
A. Carpenter, Vice-President; Jas. W. Smith, Secretary and Treasurer; C. V. 
Smith, Engineer. 

Metropolitan, 1501 Broadway, and foot West Forty-second street. 

Mutual, 36 Fourth avenue and foot East Eleventh street. 

National Coal Gas Co., 4 Warren street. 

New York, 157 Hester and Avenue A, corner East Twenty-first street. 



174 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

New York Mutual. 

New York Oxygen Gas Co., 547 West Forty -first street. 

New York Mutual Gas Light Co. Office, 36 Union square and foot East 
i:ieventli street. C. K. Garrison, President ; Arthur Leary, Vice-President ; 
Charles Hare, Secretary. 

Suburban Gas Light Co., Fourth avenue, near One-liundred-and-seventy- 
sixtli street. 

Union Gas Light Co., li Pine, and Second avenue corner East Ninety- 
eighth street. 

United States Gas Co., 149 Broadway. , 



DELAWARE AND HUDSON CANAL COMPANY. 

Office, Cortlandt Street, New York. 
This Canal Company, now controlling two or three railroads, was chartered 
l3y the States of New York and Pennsylvania, and is too important in connection 
with internal trade not to be noticed. The work was commenced in 1827, and 
finished in 1829, extending from the Hudson River, at Rondout, up the valley 
of the Rondout Creek, in Ullster County ; then across parts of Orange and 
Sullivan counties, to the Delaware River, crossing the stream and extending to 
Hornesdale, Penn., 108 miles. The canal was constructed by the company, 
at an original cost of $6,156,000, and the company is extensively engaged in 
-mining and bringing to the New York market Lackawanna coal, constantly 
employing a large number of boats, barges and men. 

In 1870 this company leased the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad, and in 
1871 leased the Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad, with its branches. It is now 
engaged in constructing a road from Whitehall, N. Y., on the west side of Lake 
Champlain, which, when completed, will give this company between 600 and 
700 miles of railway. In addition to this, they have 186 miles of iron railway in 
their mines in Pennsylvania. 

officers : 

Thos. Dickson, President, Scranton, Penn. 

James C. Hartt, Treasurer, New York. 

George L. Haight, Secretary, New York. 

H. H. Fonda, General Superintendent, Albany, N. Y. 



FERRIES TO BROOKLYN, JERSEY CITY, Ac. 
Astoria, from foot of E. Ninety-second street, E. R., from Peck slip to Astoria. 

by Harlem steamboat. 
Bedloe's Island, from Pier 43, N. R. 
Brooklyn, foot Catharine slip to Main street. 
Brooklyn, foot Fulton street to Fulton street. 
Brooklyn, foot James slip to Bridge street. 
Brooklyn, foot Wall street to Montague street. 
Brooklyn, foot Whitehall street to Atlantic street. 
Brooklyn, foot Whitehall street to Hamilton avenue. 
Brooklyn, foot New Chambers street to Bridge street. 
Brooklyn, foot Jackson street to Hudson avenue. 
Brooklyn (E. D.), foot Roosevelt street to S. Seventh street, Williamsburg. 



JEKSEY CITY, ETC. 175 

Brooklyn (E. D.), foot E, Houston street to Grand street, Williamsburg. 
Brooklyn (E. D.), Grand street to South Seventh street— South Side R. R. 
Brooklyn (E. D.), foot Grand to Grand street, Williamsburg. 
Bull's Ferry and Fort Lee, N. J., Pier 51 North River. 
Communipaw, N. J., foot of Liberty street. 
David's Island, from Pier No. 1, E. R. 
Fort Schuyler, from Pier No. 1, E. R. 

Green Point, foot E. Tenth street and foot E. Twenty-third st. to Green Point. 
Governor's Island, from Piers 1 and 43, E. R. 

Hamilton Avenue, foot Whitehall street to Atlantic Dock, Brooklyn. 
Harlem, Astoria, &c., from Peck slip, E. R. 
Hart's Island, from 26th street, E. R. 
Hoboken, foot of Barclay street. 
Hoboken, foot of Christopher street. 
Hunter's Point, foot E. 34th street to Ferry street. 
Hunter's Point, James street to Ferry street. 
Jersey City, foot of Cortlandt street to Montgomery street. 
Jersey City, foot of Desbrosses street to Exchange place. 
Jersey City, foot of W. 23d street to Long Dock. 

Jersey City, or Pavonia, foot of Chambers street to Long Dock— Erie Rail- 
way Depot. 
Mott Haven, Pier No. 24, E. R. 
Randall's Island, from 26th street and 122d street. 

Staten Island — New Brighton, Castleton, Fort Richmond, from Battery. 
Staten Island — Tompkinsville, Stapleton, Vanderbilt's Landing, from Battery. 
Ward's Island, from 10th street, E. R. 
Willett's Point, L. L, from Pier No. 1, E. R. 
Weehawken, foot of W. 42d street, N. R. 

REMARKS. 

The leading passenger transportation company in this country, if not in the 
"world, is probably the " Union Ferry Company,'''' which controls the ferries con- 
necting New York City and Brooklyn. This corporation runs four separate 
ferries between those cities, and has sixteen large boats, of which thirteen run 
by day and six all night. They carry on an average one hundred and twenty- 
five thousand foot-passengers every day, and about forty-five millions a year, 
and have been extraordinarily successful in carrying this vast number without 
accident. The ferriage for foot, passengers is two cents, excepting between the 
hours of five and half-past seven, morning and evening, when it is reduced to one 
cent, these being the times wlien multitudes of working people cross the East 
River, and the boats are consequently the most crowded. For carriages the fer- 
riage is ten and twenty cents for one and two horse vehicles, large trucks paying 
more. The Union Ferry Co. run from Fulton, Wall and South Ferry slip. New 
York, and their manager, the president of the company, is Hon. Cyrus P. 
Smith, formerly Mayor of Brooklj^n. 

Distances across the Different Ferries from New York. 

Catharine Ferry, E. R 735 yards. 

Fulton Street, " 731 

South Ferry, " 1,066 

Jackson Street Ferry " 935 

Peck Slip Ferry, " 3,800 

Williamsburgh Ferry 950 

Staten Island Ferry, Bay of New York 6,418 



176 



NEW YOKK AS IT IS. 



Jersey City Ferry, from Cortlandt street 1 mile. 

Hoboken Ferry, from Barclay street - - li miles. 

Staten Island Ferry, from Battery - -6 miles. 

LOCATION OF PIERS. 

East River. 



North River. 

1. Battery place. 

2, 3. Battery place and Morris streets. 

4. Morris street. 

5, 6, 7. Morris and Rector. 
9, 10, Rector and Carlisle. 

11. Carlisle street, 

12. Albany street. 

13. Albany and Cedar streets. 

14. Cedar street 

15. Liberty street. 

16. Liberty and Cortlandt streets. 

17. 18. Cortlandt street. 

19. Cortlandt and Dey. 

20. Dey street. 

21. Fulton street. 

22. 23, 24, Fulton and Vesey streets. 

25. Vesey street. 

26. Vesey and Barclay streets. 

27. Park place. 

28. Murray street. 

29. Warren street. 

30. Chambers street. 

31. Duane street. 

32. Duane and Jay streets. 

33. Jay street. 

34. Harrison street. 

35. Franklin street. 

36. North Moore street. 

37. Beach street. 

38. Hubert street. 

39. Vestry street. 

40. Watts street. 

41. Hoboken street. 

42. Canal street. 

43. Spring street. 

44. Spring and Charlton. 

45. Charlton street. 

46. King street. 

47. West Houston street. 

48. Clarkson street. 

49. Leroy street. 

50. Morton street. 

51. Christopher street. 



1, 2, Whitehall stieet. 

3. Moore street. 

4. Moore and Broad streets. 

5. Broad and Coenties slip. 

6. 7, 8, Coenties slip. 

9, 10, Coenties and Old slips. 
11, 12, Old slip. 

13. Old and Gouverneur slip. 

14. Jones' lane. 

15. 16. Wall street. 

17. Pine street. 

18. Maiden lane. 

19. Fletcher street. 

20. 21, Burling slip. 

22. Fulton street. 

23. Beekman street. 

24. Beekman and Peck slip. 

25. 26, Peck slip. 

27. Dover street. 

28. Dover and Roosevelt streets. 

29. Roosevelt street. 

30. Roosevelt and James streets. 

31. 32, James slip. 

33. Oliver street. 

34, 35. Catharine street. 

36. Catharine and Market streets. 

37, 38. Market street. 

39. Market and Pike streets. 

40, 41. Pike street. 

42. Pike and Rutgers street. 

43, 44. Rutgers street. 

45. Rutgers and Jefferson. 

46. Jefferson street. 

47. Jefferson and Clinton. 

48. Clinton street. 

49. Clinton and Montgomery streets, 

50. Montgomery street. 

51. 52. Gouverneur street. 

53. Jackson street. 

54. Corlears street. 

55. Cherry street. 

56. 57. Broome street. 
58, 59. Delancey street. 

60. Rivington street. 

61. Rivington and Stanton streets. 



KATES OF POSTAGE. 



177 



DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN RATES OF POSTAGE. 



DOMESTIC POSTAGE. 

The following Table will show the Eates of 
Postage on letters ; also the postage on news- 
papers, books, pamphlets and all mailable mat- 
ter to and from all parts of the United States. 



Letters. 



jEach^oz. 



Letters to any part of the U. States. 

Drop letters— that is, letters mailed 
in a city, to be delivered elsewhere 
iu the same city 

Postal cards to any part of the U. S . 
Registered letters are charged 10 

cts. in addition to the proper postage . 



3cts. 



2 cts. 
1 ct. each. 



Books, Transient Newspapers, For Every 
Mdse, etc. 2 oz. 



Books, circulars and other printed 
matter (including transient news- 
papers), seeds, cuttings, bulbs, 
roots and scions, in packages not 
exceeding 4 lbs. in weight, for each 
ounce 

Merchandise and samples, in pack- 
ages not exceeding 4 lbs. in weight, 
for each ounce or fraction thereof. 

Newspapers, circulars and periodicals 
not exceeding 2 oz. in weight, de- 
posited for local delivery 

Exceeding 2 oz 



let. 
let. 



1 ct. each. 

2 cts. each 



Postage on Newspapers, Magazines and 
Periodicals to Subscribers. 

The postage rates on all newspapers and peri- 
odical publications, mailed from a known office 
of publication or news agency, and addressed to 
regular subscribers or news agents, are as follows : 

On daily and weekly newspapers and periodi- 
cal publications, and on newspapers and periodi- 
cals issued oftener than once a week, two (2) 
cents for each pound or fraction thereof. 

On newspapers and periodicals issued less 
frequently than once a week, three (3) cents per 
pound or fraction thereof^ 

MONEY ORDERS. 

Rates on money orders in U. S. : Not exceed- 
ing S15, ten cents ; over ^20 to $30, fifteen 
cents ; over $30 to $40, twenty cents ; over $40 
to $50, twenty-five cents. 

Money orders to Great Britain and Switzer- 
land : Not exceeding $10, twenty-five cents ; 
over $10 to $20, fifty cents ; over $20 to $30, 
seventy-five cents ; over $30 to $40, one dollar ; 
over $40 to $50, one dollar and twenty -five cents. 

Money orders to Germany : Not exceeding $5, 
fifteen cents ; over $5 to $10, twenty-five cents ; 
over $10 to $20, fifty cents ; over $20 to $30, 
seventy-five cents ; over $30 to $40, one dollar ; 
over $40 to $50, one dollar and twenty-five cents. 

Money orders to Canada : Not exceeding $10, 
twenty cents ; over $10 to $20, forty cents ; 
over $20 to $30, sixty cents ; over $30 to $40, 
eighty cents ; over $40 to $50, one dollar. 



POSTAGE TO FOREIGN COUN- 
TRIES. 

The following Table shows the Eates of Post- 
age chargeable on letters and newspapers to the 
foreign countries and places named in alpha- 
betical order. 



Letters. 



Argentine Confederation. . . 

Aspinwall 

Austria 

Australia, via San Francisco 
do. via England., 
do. via Brindisi . . 

Belgium 

Bermuda, via New York 

Brazil, direct 

Canada, Nova Scotia, New- 
foundland, etc 

Cape of Good Hope 

Chili, BoliAia, Ecuador and 
Peru 

China, via Southampton... 

Denmark, via England 

East Indies,via San F'ncisco 

do. via England 

do. via Brindisi 

France 

German States, via North 
German Union 

Great Britain and Ireland. . 

Holland 

Hong Kong, Canton, Svva- 
tow, Amoy and Foochow, 
via San Francisco 

Italy, via England 

Japan, via San Francisco.. 

Liberia 

Mexico 

Norway and Sweden 

Portugal, via Southampton. 

Russia, via England 

Shanghai, via San Francisco 

Spain 

Switzerland ...... 

Turney, Syria, etc., via Eng- 
land 

Venezuela, by American 
Packet 

Venezuela, by B'tish Packet 

West Indies, direct 

do. (British), via St. 
Thomas or Havana 



Not 
exceeding 

K DZ. 



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5 
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5 
15 
21 
*5 

5 
15 



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10 

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15 

*15 

10 

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*5 

5 

5 

*5 

*5 

10 
13 
5 

13 



News- 
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The asterisk (*) indicates that the postage may be 
paid or not, at the option of the sender of the letter. 

t The newspaper postage to Canada is the same as 
that to any part of the United States. 



Postal Cards to Foreign Countries. 
American postal cards may be sent for an ad- 
ditional one cent stamp to European countries 
and Egypt. 



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CKIMTNAL STATISTICS. 179 

CRIMINAL STATISTICS, 

OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FOR THE YEAR ENDING OCTOBER 31, 1875. 

The total number of cases disposed of in the Police Courts of the city 
during the present year was 84,399, of which number 60,331 were males and 
S4,068 were females. Of these there were held upon some charge 54,655, of 
whom 36,841 were males and 17,814 were females. There were discharged 
29,733, of whom 23,749 were males and 6,254 were femaies, and 11 cases of 
males are still pending the decision of magistrate. 

NATIVITY. 

Of the total number of persons held for trial and convicted, amounting 
to 54,655, the several nativities are distributed as follows : Ireland, 23,891; 
United States, 21,270; Germany, 5,197; England, 1,793; Scotland, 563 ; France, 
452, Italy, 277; other foreign countries, 757; and not given, 455. No compari- 
son can be made with last year, as the report for that year shows the nativity of 
almost one-third not given. 

INTOXICATION AND DISORDERLY CONDUCT. 

The nativity of those convicted upon charges of intoxication and disorderly 
conduct is as follows ; Ireland, 18,816; United States, 13, 159; Germany, 2,754; 
England, 1,281; Scotland, 456; France, 294; Italy, 124; other foreign countries, 
452; not given, 133; total, 37,470. 

FELONY. 

The nativity of those held for trial upon charges of felony is as follows; 
United States, 1,892; Ireland, 552; Germany, 365; England, 117; France, 37, 
Italy, 30; Scotland, 17; other foreign countries, 71; and not given, 45. Total: 
3,126. 

MISDEMEANOR. 

The nativity of those held for trial upon charges of misdemeanor is as fol- 
lows: United States, 3,386; Ireland, 2,569; Germany, 1,422; England, 203; 
France, 74; Italy, 67; Scotland, 43; other foreign countries, 132; and not given, 
157. Total, 8,053. 

VAGRANCY. 

The nativity of those convicted of being vagrants is as follows : United 
States, 1,373; Ireland, 1,212; Germany, 284; England, 118; Scotland, 33; 
France, 26 ; Italy, 25 ; other foreign countries, 47 ; and not given, 33. Total, 
-3,151. By reference to table F, the nativity for each specific offense may be seen. 

AGE. 

The ages of all persons held for trial or convicted are as follows : Under 
the age of 14 years, 1,536 males and 336 females; total, 1,872. Between the ages 
14 and 20 years, 4,327 males and 1,418 females; total, 5,745. Between the ages 
of 20 and 30 years, 13,308 males and 7,086 females; total, 20,394. Between the 
ages of 30 and 40 years, 16,048 males and 5,348 females; total, 15,396. Over 40 
years of age, 7,065 males and 3,471 females; total, 10,536. Age not given, 557 
males and 155 females; total, 54,655. No comparison can be made with last 
year, owing to the large number reported for that year as not given. 

COLOR. 

The color of those held or convicted is reported as — white, 53,534; black, 
1,121; total, 54,655. Last year the color was reported— white, 48,678; black, 
573; total, 49,251; making an increase for this year of — white, 4,856; black, 548; 
total, 5,404. 



PART VIII. 



NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS 

IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 



Estab- 
lished. 
1855. 
1874. 
1794. 
1828. 
1873. 
1870. 
1859. 



Daily. 

Bulletin and Auction Record, 5 South William street. 

City Record (Official Journal), No. 2 City Hall. 

Commercial Advertiser (daily and weekly), cor. Fulton and Nassau streets. 

Courier des Etats-Unis (daily and weekly) 92 Walker street. 

Daily Graphic (Illustrated), 41 Park place. 

Daily Register, 308 Broadway. 

Evening Mail (daily and weelkly), 34 Park Row. 
1835. Evening Express (daily, semi-weekly and weekly), 23 Park row. 
1801. Evening Post (daily, semi-weekly and weekly), 206 Broadway cor. Fulton. 

1867. Evening Telegram, 2 Ann street. 

1862. Financial Daily Record, 42 Broad street. 

1834. Herald* (daily and weekly), cor. Broadway and Ann street. 

1791. Journal of Commerce (daily, semi-weekly and weekly), 76 Beaver street. 

1859. Le Messager Franco-Americain, 42 Great Jones street. 
1858. News, 19 City Hall Square. 

1846. New Yorker Demokrat (daily and weekly). 

1861. New Yorker Journal (daily and weekly), 15 Frjmkfort street. 

1873. New Yorker Presse (daily and weekly), 7 Frankfort street. 

1870. New Yorker Tages-Nashrichten, 19 City Hall Square. 
1851. Skandinavish Post (daily and weekly), 19 City Hall Square. 
1851. Staats-Zeitung (daily and weekly). Try on Row. 

1868. Star (The), 27 City Hall Square. 

1833. Sun* (The), (daily and weekly), Printing House Square. 

1851. Times* (daily, semi-weekly and weekly). Printing House Square. 

1841. Tribune (daily, semi-weekly and weekly). Printing House Square, 

1871. Witness (daily and weekly), 2 Spruce street. 

1860. World* (daily, semi-weekly and weekly), 35 Park row. 

* Issued on Sundays. 

Weekly and Semi- Weekly. 



Advocate and Family Guardian, 29 East 

29th St. 
Albion, 16 South William st. 
American Art Journal, 104 East 13th st. 
American Commercial Times, 86 Duane. 
American Grocer, 141 Chambers st. 
American Newspaper Reporter, 41 Park 

row. 
American Railroad Journal, 9 Spruce st. 



Anierican Standard Register, 30 Vesey st. 
Appleton's Journal, 551 Broadway. 
Arbeiter Zeitung, 113 Chrystie st. 
Arcadian, 169 Fulton st. 
Army and Navy Journal, 23 Murray. 
Art Journal, 104 East 13th st. 
Atlantische Blaetter, 24 Stanton st. 
Bank Note and Commercial Reporter, 2^ 
Beekman. 



180. 



NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS. 



181 



Baptist Union, 37 Park row. 
Baptist Weekly, 37 Park row. 
Boys' and Girls' Weekly, 537 Pearl st. 
Bulletin de New York, 48 Broad. 
Catholic Review, 37 Park row. 
Chimney Corner, 637 Pearl st. 
Christian Advocate, 805 Broadway. 
Christian Intelligencer, 6 New Church st. 
Christian Union, 24 Murray st. 
Christian at Work, 103 Chambers st. 
Chronicle, 86 Liberty st. 
Church Journal and Gospel Messenger, 783 

Broadway. 
Church Union, 292 Broadway. 
Church and State, 139 Eighth st. 
Churchman, 713 Broadway. 
Coal Trade Journal, 39 Nassau st. 
Commercial and Financial Chronicle and 

Hunt's Merchant's Magazine, 79 William. 
Copy Hook, 37 Park row. 
Comer Stone, 599 Broadway. 
Counting-House Monitor, 75 Fulton st. 
Crockery and Glass Journal, 30 Vesey st. 
Cronista (El), (semi-weekly), 64 BroadAvay. 
Day's Doings, 535 Pearl st. 
Deutsch Amerikanische Volksbibliothek, 

19 Dey st. 
Deutsch Volksfreund, 150 Nassau st. 
Deutsches Volksblatt, Third av., near 

147th St. 
Digest, 79 Nassau st. 
Druggists' Journal, 350 Pearl st. 
Drygoods Reporter, 350 Pearl st. 
Echo, 39 William st. 
Eco d'ltalia (semi-weekly), 51 Liberty st. 
Engineering and Mining Journal,27 Park pi. 
Examiner and Chronicle, 39 Park row. 
Fireside Companion, 84 Beekman st. 
Eorest and Stream, 17 Chatham st. 
Fortschritt (Literary Journal). 
Free Press, 185 Bleecker st. 
Free Lance, 31 Park row. 
Freischuetz (Der), 3 N. William st. 
Girls and Boys of America, 84 Beekman st. 
Gospel Sower, 34 Vesey st. 
Grocers' Price Current, 350 Pearl st. 
Grocery and Provision Review, 42 Cedar st. 
Grocer, 163 Chambers st. 
Hardware Price Current, 350 Pearl st. 
Harper's Bazar, 331 Pearl st. 
Harper's Weekly, 331 Pearl st. 
Heart and Hand, 142 Fulton st. 
Hearth and Home, 41 Park pi. 
Hebrew Leader, 196 Broadway. 
Home Journal, 3 Park place. 
Illustrated Christian Weekly, 150 Nassau 
Illustrated Newspaper, 537 Pearl st. 
Illustrated Weekly, 11 Dey st. 
lUustriste Zeitung, 537 Pearl st. 



Independent, 251 Broadway. 

Insurance and Real Estate Journal, 23 

Dey St. 
Internal Revenue Record, 23 Murray st. 
Irish American, 57 Murray st. 
Irish Citizen, 59 Warren st. 
Irish Democrat, 25 Beekman st. 
Irish World, 5 Barclay st. 
Iron Age, 10 Warren st. 
Jewish Gazette, 112 Canal st. 
Jewish Messenger, 645 Broadway. 
Jewish Times, 11 Ann st. 
Journal de la Semaine, 41 Liberty. 
La Revolucion, 13 Park row. 
Lady's Journal, 537 Pearl st. 
Liberal Christian, 214 Broadway. 
Medical Record, 27 Great Jones st. 
Merchants and Manf 's Times, 31 Park row. 
Metal Worker, 10 Warren st. 
Methodist, 114 Nassau st. 
Monde Illustre, 41 Liberty st. 
Moore's Rural New Yorker, 78 Duane st. 
Nation, 5 Beekman st. 
National Police Gazette, 15 Centre st. 
Nature, 21 Astor place. 
Nautical Gazette, 40 Burling slip. 
Neue Heim, 22 Beekman st. 
New Jerusalem Messenger, 20 Cooper 

Union. 
New Sensation, 28 Beekman st. 
New York Clipper, 88 Centre st. 
N. Y. Commercial Times, 31 Park row. 
New York Courier, 18 Ann st. 
New York Day Book, 60 Beekman st. 
New York Dispatch, 11 Frankfort st. 
New York Era, (S. W. & W.), 26 Ann St. 
New York Evangelist, 5 Beekman st. 
N. Y. FamUy Story Paper, 28 Beekman st. 
New York Freeman's Journal, 37 Barclay. 
New York Handel's Zeitung, 73 William st. 
New York Home Magnet, 75 Nassau st. 
New York Ledger, 182 William st. 
New York Maritime Register, 73 William st. 
N. Y. Mercantile Journal, 350 Pearl st. 
New York Mercury, 128 Fulton st. 
New York Observer, S. J. Prime & Co., 

37 Park row. 
N. Y. School Journal, 89 Liberty st. 
New York Spectator, 126 Fulton st. 
New York Sportsman, 23 Park row. 
New York Sunday News, 19 Chatham st. 
New York Tablet, 31 Barclay st. 
N. Y. Trade Reporter, 17 New Church st. 
New York Weekly, 31 Rose st. 
New Yorker, 49 Liberty st. 
Once a Week, 59 Hudson st. 
Paper Trade Reporter, 57 Gold st. 
Pathfinder, 66 John st. 
People's Pulpit, 57 Bible House. 



182 



NEW YOKK AS IT IS. 



Pleasure Season, 91 Duane st. 
Producer's Price Current, 162 B'way. 
Publishers' Weekly, F. Seyboldt, 37 Park R. 
Railroad Gazette, 71 B'way. 
Railroad Journal, 9 Spruce st. 
Rationalist. 16 New Church st. 
Real Estate Record, 345 B'way. 
Saturday Star Journal, 98 William st. 
Schnedderedeng, 59 Beekman st. 
Scientific American, Munn & Co., 37 Park 

row. 
Scottish American Journal, 37 Park row. 
Shipping and Commercial List, 4 Cedar st. 

Established in 1795. 
Shoe and Leather Reporter, 17 Spruce st. 
Social Democrat, 17 Forsyth st. 
South, 182 Fulton st. 
Spirit of the Times, 3 Park row. 
Stockholder, 59 Cedar st. 
Sunday Citizen, 59 Warren st. 
Sunday Democrat, 25 Beekman st. 
Sunday Mercury, 128 Fulton st. 



Sunday School Advocate, 805 B'way. 

Sunday Times, 12 Frankfort st. 

Telegrapher, 38 Vesey st. 

The Public, 71 Broadway. 

Thompson Bank Note Reporter, 22 Beek- 
man St. 

Time Table, 173 Greenwich st. 

Tobacco Leaf, 142 Fulton st. 

Touchstone (The), 52 Fourth av. 

Trade Record, l&i Fulton st. 

Truth Seeker, 335 Broadway. 

Turf, Field and Farm, 37 Park row. 

United States Economist, 88 White st. 

United States Mining Journal, 16 South 
William st. 

Volksfruend, 150 Nassau st. 

Wall Street Journal, 16 S. William st. 

Weekly Bulletin, 76 WUliam st. 

Wild Oats, 59 Beekman st 

Wine and Fruit Reporter, 45 Beaver st. 

Wodohull & Claflin's Weeklylll Nassau st. 

Young American, 537 Pearl st. 



Monthly PublicationB. 



Advance, 75 Gold st. 
Aldine, 58 Maiden Lane. 
Alte und Neue Welt, 311 Broadway. 
American Age, 245 Broadway. 
American Agriculturist, 245 Broadway. 
American Bibliopolist, 84 Nassau st. 
American Brewer, 5 Frankfort st. 
American Brewer's Gazette, 194 Fulton st. 
American Builder, 176 Broadway. 
American Educational Monthly, 14 Bond. 
American Engineering, 269 Pearl. 
American Industries, 14 Park place. 
American Literary Bureau, 20 Cooper Un. 
American Lloyds, 35 Wall st. 
American Locomotive Engineer, 269 Pearl. 
American Messenger, 150 Nassau st. 
American Missionary, 56 Reade st. 
American Progress, 239 Broadway. 
Amigo de Los Ninos, 40 Broadway. 
Aquatic Monthly, 33 Union square. 
Art Journal, 551 Broadway. 
Ateneo (El), 31 Park Row. 
Atlantic, 13 Astor place. 
Bankers' Magazine, 251 Broadway. 
Bible Society Record, 4 Bible House. 
Biblical Museum, 52 Fourth av. 
Blackwood's Magazine, 41 Barclay st. 
Body and Mind, 137 Eighth street. 
Botschaften, 150 Nassau st. 
Boys of America, 537 Pearl st. 
Budget of Fun, 537 Pearl st. 
Carrier Dove, 22 Bible House. 
Catholic World, 9 Warren st. 
Centennial Art Journal, 409 Broadwav. 



Child's Paper, 150 Nassau st. 
Child's World, 7 Bible House. 
Christian Patriot, 37 Park row. 
Christian World, 45 Bible House. 
Church Gazette, 153 East 39th st. 
Contemporary Review, 25 Bond st. 
Delineator (The), 555 Broadway. 
Demorest's Monthly, 17 East 14th st.. 
Dental Monitor, 25 West 23d st. 
Domestic Monthly, 849 Broadway. 
Druggists' Circular, 36 Beekman st.. 
Eclectic Magazine, 25 Bond st. 
Electrical Era, 7 West 14th st. 
Espejo (El), 4 Cedar st. 
Family Friend, 52 Fourth av. 
Family Journal, 292 Broadway. 
Fire Record, 65 Liberty st. 
Floral Cabinet, 46 Beekman st. 
Friendly Visitor, 52 Fourth av. 
Galaxy, 677 Broadway. 
God's Glad Tidings, 15 Bible House. 
Golden Hours, 39 Nassau st. 
Golden Hours, 805 Broadway. 
Good Cheer, 102 Chambers st. 
Good Things, 25 Bond st. 
Good Words, 102 Chambers st. 
Grand Army Gazette, 28 Centre st. 
Grangers' Price Current, 32 Beekman st. 
Guide to Holiness, 14 Bible House. 
Hall's Journal of Health, 137 Eighth stw 
Harper's New Monthly, 331 Pearl st. 
Herald of Health, 13 Laight st. 
Here and There, 115 Broad st. 
Hive, 52 Fourth av. 



NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS. 



183 



Home Journal of Health, 849 Broadway. 

Home Missionary, 34 Bible House. 

Home and Abroad, 22 Bible House. 

Homilist, 52 Fourth av. 

Household Magazine, 41 Park Row. 

Housekeeper, b9 Duane st. 

Hub, 323 Pearl st. 

Humorist, 33 Park Row. 

Importer, 42 Pine st. 

Industrial Monthly Magazine, 176 B'way. 

Infant's Magazine, 52 Fourth av. 

Insurance Age, 265 Broadway. 

Insurance Law Journal, 176 Broadway. 

Insurance Monitor, 176 Broadway. 

Insurance Times, 137 Broadway. 

Iron Age, 10 Warren st. 

Kind Words, 52 Fourth av. 

Ladies' Floral Cabinet, 46 Beekman st. 

Ladies' Own Magazine, 11 Clinton place. 

Ladies' Repository, 805 Broadway. 

Lady's Magazine, 537 Pearl st. 

Life Boat, 80 Wall st. 

Little Gem, 46 Beekman st. 

London Lancet, 52 John street. 

Macmillan's Magazine, 21 Astor place. 

Manufacturers' Review, 18 Exchange pi. 

Manufacturers and Builders', 37 Park row. 

Messenger, 150 Nassau st. 

Millers' Journal, 34 Park Row. 

Mirror of Fashion, 615 Broadway. 

Missionary Advocate, 805 Broadway. 

Missionary Herald, 39 Bible House. 

Missionary Link, 47 East 21st st. 

Monthly Packet, 52 Fourth av. 

Morning, 23 Park Row. 

Morning Light, 150 Nassau st. 

Morning of Life, 52 Fourth av. 

Mothers' Magazine, 5 Beekman st. 

Morford's American Traveller, 56 Broadway 

Musical Globe, 2 Clinton place. 

My Paper, 102 Chambers st. 

National Agriculturist, 128 Nassau st. 

National Bank Note Reporter, 76 Nassau st. 

National Protestant. 67 Liberty st. 

National Teachers' Monthly, 111 William st. 

National Temp. Advocate, 58 Reade st. 

Needle, 25 Park Row. 

New Era, 67 William st. 

New Remedies, 27 Great Jones st. 

New York Journal of Health, 12 Union sq. 

New York Medical Journal, 551 Broadway. 

New York Trade Gazette, 75 Gold st. 

Nick Nax, 49 Liberty st. 

Normal Class, 805 Broadway. 

Novo Mundo, 39 Park Row. 

Old and Young, 102 Chambers st. 

Our own Fireside, 176 William st. 



Painters' Magazine, 42 Cedar st. 

Paper Makers' Monthly, 77 Duane st. 

Palish Visitor, 2 Bible House. 

Patent Right Gazette, 94 Chambers st. 

Peerless, 88 East 10th st. 

Penny Post, 52 Fourth av. 

Phrenological Journal, 737 Broadway. 

Phunny Fellow, 31 Rose st. 

Pictorial World, 75 Gold st. 

Pleasant Hours, 537 Pearl st. 

Popular Science Monthly, 551 Broadway. 

Portfolio, 706 Broadway. 

Practitioner, 21 Astor Place. 

Presbyterian Quarterly, 38 John st. 

Safeguard, 36 Broad st. 

Sailor's Magazine, 80 Wall st. 

St. Nicholas Magazine, 743 Broadway. 

St. Paul's Magazine, 25 Bond st. 

Sanitarian, 234 Broadwaj'. 

Science of Health, 737 Broadway. 

Science Gossip, 308 Fourth av. 

Scribner's Magazine, 743 Broadway. 

Seaman's Friend, 80 Wall st. 

Sewing Machine Journal, 66 Bible House. 

Singers' Journal, 60 Chatham st. 

Sound Words, 15 Bible House. 

Spectator, 16 Dey st. 

Spirit of Missions, 22 Bible House. 

Student's Journal, 563 Broadway. 

Sunday, 52 Fourth av. 

Sunday at Home, 7 Bible House. 

Sunday Magazine, 52 Fourth av. 

Sunday School Chronicle, 52 Fourth av. 

Sunday School Journal, 805 Broadway. 

Sunday School Times, 52 Fourth av. 

Sunday School World, 7 Bible House. 

Sunshine, 52 Fourth av. 

Tailors' Review, 555 Broadway. 

Technologist, 176 Broadway. 

Temperance Magazine, 383 Broome st. 

Ten Weeks, 25 Bible House. 

Truth Seeker, 335 Broadway. 

U. States Insurance Gazette, 153 Broadway. 

Univers lUustre (L'), 41 Liberty st. 

Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering, 23 

Murray st. 
Watchmaker and Jeweler, 65 Nassau st. 
Work and Play, 57 Bible House. 
Working Church, 57 Bible House. 
Working Teacher, 89 Liberty st. 
Workshop, 32 Frankfort st. 
Yankee Notions, 49 Liberty st. 
Young Catholic, 9 Warren st. 
Young Israel, 17 Cedar st. 
Your Paper, 23 Park Row. 
Youth's Temperance Banner, 58 Reade st. 



184 



NEW YORK ^AS IT IS. 



Quarterly Publications. 



Advertiser's Gazette, 40 Park Row. 
African Repository, 44 Bible House. 
American . Journal of Obstetrics, 27 Great 

Jones st, 
American Life Assurance Magazine, 153 

Broadway. 
Congregational Magazine, 69 Bible House. 
Edinburgh Review, 41 Barclay st. 
Happy Hours, 1 Chambers st. 



Leaf Cluster, 805 Broadway. 
Methodist Quarterly Review, 805 Broad- 
way. 
Missionary Echo, 2 Bible House. 
Musical Monitor, 55 Maiden lane. 
Photographic Review, 25 Bond st. 
Pulpit and Rostrum, 14 Bond st. 
Real Estate Journal, 345 Broadway. 



Semi-Weekly Publications. 



City Gazette, 2,401 Third av. 
Cronista (El), &4 Broadway. 



I Eco d' Italia, 51 Liberty st. 

I Shipping and Commercial List, 4 Cedar st. 



Semi-Monthly Publications. 



American Bookseller, 121 Nassau st. 
American Gas Light Journal, 42 Pine st. 
American, Illustrated, 39 Park Row. 
Education, Popular, 40 Broadway. 



Journal of the Telegraph, 195 Broadway. 
Lutherische Herald, 39 Centre st. 
Novellen-Schatz, 19 Dey st. 
Precio Corrients Americano, 237 Broadway. 



NEW YORK ASSOCIATED PRESS. 

Rooms, 8tli floor Western Union Telegraph Company's Building. 
James W. Simonton, General Agent. 



NEW YORK CITY PRESS ASSOCIATION 

Rooms, 111 Nassau Street. 
C. A. O'RouRKE, Manager. 



New York Newspapers and Periodicals. 

The Daily, Weekly, and Semi- Weekly papers, and Monthly and Quarterly 
publications, now number about four hundred. The Dailies are mostly issued 
in the interest of the different politicl parties, or stand independent, while 
others are devoted to different kinds of business pursuits ; a few being issued 
in foreign languages. The Weekly, Semi-Weekly, and Monthly publications 
are of all kinds — devoted to the Arts, Manufactures, Trade and Commerce, as 
well as Miscellaneous reading. Of the latter are many Religious publications. 
The Quarterly publications are comparatively few, being mostly devoted to 
Religious subjects. Medical, etc. 

Note. — The list as here published, has been revised from the books of Messrs. 
Geo. p. Rowell & Co. , publishers of the American Newspaper Directory, and 
will be found accurate and complete. 




OCEAN STEAMER LEAVING NEW YORK. 



OCEAN STEAMERS. 185 




OCEAN STEAMERS SAILING FROM AMERICAN TO FOREIGN 

PORTS— 1876. 

New York to Bremen, via Southampton, England — Per " North German 
Lloyd" Steamship Line — Established 1858 — Steamships America^ Donau, 
Frankfort, Oraf Bismarck^ Habsburg, Hansa, Hermann, Hanover, Holwnzollern, 
Hohenstauffen, Koln, Kronprim, Fr. W., Main, Mosel, Neckar, Oden, Hhein, 
Strashurg, Salter and Weser — Sailing every Saturday. Oelrichs & Co., 
Agents, No. 3 Bowling Green, New'York. 

New York to Plymouth, Cherbourg and Hamburg — Per " Hamburg- Ameri- 
can Packet Co." — Established 1856. — '^itQQ.-msh.v^s Allemannia, Bavaria, Bo— 
russia, Cimbra, Franconia, Fisia, Oellert, Oermania, OoetJie, Hammonia, Her 
der, Holsatia, Klopstock, Lessing, Lotharingia, Poinmerania, Rhenania, Saxonia. 
Silesia, Suerma, Teutonia, Thuringia, Vandalia and Westphalia — Sailing from 
Hoboken every Thursday. Kunhardt & Co., Agents, 61 Broad Street, and 
C. B. Richard & Boas, General Passenger Agents, 61 Broadway, New York. 

New York to Havre, France — Per "General Transatlantic Co." — Steame 
ships Amerique, France, Lafayette, Labrador, Periere, Saint Laurent^ Ville d. 
Paris and Washington — Sailing every other Saturday from Pier No. 50, N. R- 
Louis de Bedian, Agent, 55 Broadway, New York. 

Kew York to Glasgow — Calling at Londonderry, Ireland — Per "Anchor 
Line" — Steamers Alsatia, Anchoria, Anglia, Australia, Bolivia, Caledonia, 
California, Castalia, Elysia, Ethiopia, Europa, India, Italia, Nubia, Trinacria, 
Utopia and Victoria — Sailing every Saturday from Pier No. 20, North River. 
Henderson Bros., Agents, 7 Bowling Green. 

New York to Marseilles, France, and Ports in the Mediterranean — Per "An- 
chor Line." — Steamers Acadia,, Alexandria, Assyria, ColuTnbia, Despatch, 
Dorian, Napoli, Olympia, Scotia, Scandinavia, Shamrock, Sidonian and Tyrian. 
Sail every week from Pier 21, N. R. Henderson Bros., Agents, 7 Bowling 
Green. 

New York to Liverpool— Calling at Cork.— (Cunard Line— Established, 1840.) 
— Per British & North America Royal Mail Steamships Abyssinia, 
Algeria, Aleppo, Atlas, Batavda, Calabria, China, Cuba, Hecla, Java, Kedar, 
Malta, Marathon, Morocco, Olympus, Palmyra, Parthia, Russia, Samaria, Scotia, 
Siberia, Sidon, Tarifa, Trinidad, Bothnia, Scythia and Saragossa. Sailing from 
New York every Wednesday and Saturday ; from Boston twice a week. — 
Chas. G. Franckltn, Agent, 4 Bowling Green, N. Y. ; Jas. Alexander, 
Agent, 99 State street, Boston. {See Adv.) 



186 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

New York to Liverpool — Calling at Cork, Ireland. — Per National Steamship 
Company's Steameks Spain, Egypt, The Queen, Erin, England and Helvetia. 
Bailing Saturdays from Pier 47, North River. — F. W. J. Hurst, Manager, 
69 Broadway, N. Y. The most Southerly Route has always been adopted by 
this Company, to avoid ice and headlands. 

New York to London. — Per National Line Steamers Italy, France, Canada, 
Greece, Denmark and Holland. Sailing from Piers 44 and 47, North River, 
fortnightly.— F. W. J. Hurst, Manager, 69 Broadway, N. Y. 

New York to Liverpool, via Queenstown. — Per "White Star Line Steam- 
ers " Adriatic, Baltic, Britannic, Germanic, Celtic, Oceanic and Republic. 
(Carrying the U. S. Mails.) Sailing every Saturday. — R. J. Cortis, Agent, 
37 Broadway. 

New York to Bristol, England. — Per Great Western S. S. Line. — Steam- 
ers Arragon, Cornwall, Great Western and Somerset, sailing from Pier 18, East 
River. — W. D. Morgan, Agent, 70, South street. New York. 

New York to Liverpool — Calling at Queenstown. — "Inman Line." (Estab- 
lished 1850.) City of Neio York, City of Brooklyn, City of Brussels, City of Lon- 
don, City of Paris, City of Antwerp, City of Limerick, City of Bristol, City of 
Chester, City of Montreal, City of Richmond, and City of Berlin. Sailing every 
Saturday from Pier 45, North River. — John G. Dale, Agent, 15 Broadway. 

To Liverpool and Queenstown. — Per Liverpool and Great Western 
Steam Company's Steamers (carrying the U. S. Mails), Idaho, Nevada, Wiscon- 
sin, Wyoming, Dakota and Montana. Sailing every Tuesday from Pier 46, North 
River. Passage Office, 29 Broadway. — Williams & Guion, 63 Wall street. 

New York to Glasgow and Belfast. — Per State Line Steamers Alabama, 
Georgia, Louisiana, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Indiana and Nevada. 
Sailing every Thursday from Eagle Pier, Hoboken. — Austin Baldwin & 

Co. , Agents, 72 Broadway, N. Y. 

New York to Antwerp. — Per " White Cross Line ' Steamers Steinmann, C, 
F. Funchand Auguste Andre. — Punch, Edye & Co., Agents, 27 South William 
street. 

New York to Rotterdam. — Per Netherlands- American Steam Navigation 
Company's Steamers Maas, Rotterdam, P. Caland, and W. A. ScJwtten. — 
Sailing every second Thursday from Pier near Pavonia Ferry, J. C. — Funch, 
Edye & Co. , Agents, 27 South William street. 

New York to Hull, England.— Calling at Southampton.— Per "Wilson- 
Line. "—Steamers Colombo, Hindoo, Navarino and Othello. Sail from Pier No. 
53, N. R. Chas. L. Wright & Co., Agents, 56 South Street, New York. 



New York to Rio de Janeiro.— Calling at St. Thomas, W. I., Para, Per- 
nambuco, Bahia, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.— Per United States and 
Brazil Mail Steamships Ontario, South America and Merrimack. Sailing 
from Pier 43, N. R., New York, on the 23d of every month.— Connect with 
steamers running to Montevideo and Buenos Ayres. — Wm. R. Garrison^ 
Agent, 5 Bowling Green, New York. 



OCEAN STEAMERS. 18T 

New York to Havana, Progresso, Oampeachy, Vera Cruz, Tuxhan, Tam- 
pico and New Orleans.— Per New York, Havana and Mexican Mail 
Steamship Line. Steamers City of Mexico, City of Merida, City of Vera 
Cruz, City of Neio York, City of Havana and Cuba. Sailing from Pier No 
3, N. R.— F. Alexander & Sons, 38 Broadway, New York. 
Note.— The Steamers remain at several of the above Ports sufficient time for 
visit back in the interior, making the trip specially attractive for both tour- 
ists and invalids at any season of the year, from either New York or New 
Orleans. 

New York to Havana, Direct Mail Line.— Steamers sail every Tuesday 
from Pier 13, N. R., at 3 P. M. Steamers Crescent City, Columbus, Columbia, 
Mora Castle and Wilmington.— W . P. Clyde & Co., 6 Bowling Green New 
York. 

New York to Hayti, Jamaica, Venezuela and Spanish Main.— Per The 

Atlas Steamship Company's Mail Steamers Anxles, Atlas, Alps, 
Claribel and Etna.—^?L\\mg bi-monthly from Pier No. 12, N. R. Pim, For- 
ward & Co., Oemral Agents, 56 Wall Street. 



American Line.— Weekly Mail Steamship service between Philadelphia and 
Liverpool.— Calling at Queenstown, sailing every Thursday from Philadel- 
phia, and sailing every Wednesday from Liverpool. The following steamers 
are appointed to sail from Philadelphia : Ohio, Pennsylvania, *Kenilworth, 
Indiana, Illinois and ^Lord Clive. Prices of Passage in Currency — Cabin $75 
to $100, according to location. Steerage and intermediate tickets to and from 
all points at the lowest rates. * Steamers marked with a star do not carry 
intermediate. Passenger accommodations for all classes unsurpassed. For 
passage, rates of freight, and other information, apply to Geo. W. Colton, 
Agent, No. 42 Broad Street ; John McDonald, Passenger Agent, No. 8 Battery 
Place, New York. Richardson, Spence & Co., Liverpool. Peter, 
Wright & Sons, General Agents, 307 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. 



Lines of Ocean Steamers Running from American to European Ports. 

NAME. NO. STEAMERS. SAILINa FROM AND TO. 

American Steamship Co 6 Philadelphia to Liverpool. 

. n T • on i Montreal and Quebec to Liverpool. 

Allan Line... -.... 20 j Sail from Portland, Me. , in Winter. 

" " 8 Baltimore to Halifax and Liverpool. 

Anchor Line 17 New York to Glasgow. 

" " 13 New York to Marseilles, &c. 

Cunard Line 26 New York and Boston to Liverpool. 

General Transatlantic 

{French Line) 7 New York to Havre. 

Great Western 4 New York to Bristol, England. 

Hamburg-American Line 24 ] ^l^d llamburg^""""""'- ^"''^""^ 

Inman Line 12 New York to Liverpool. 

Liverpool and Great Western 8 New York to Liverpool. 



188 



NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



National Line 7 

" 5 

ISTorse American 6 

Netherlands- American _ 4 

North German Lloyd's __ 20 

5 

State Line. 8 

White Cross Line _.. 3 

White Star Line 7 



New York to Liverpool. 

New York to London. 

New York to London. 

New York to Rotterdam. 

N. Y. to Southampton and Bremen. 

Baltimore to Southampton and Bremen. 

New York to Glasgow. 

New York to Antwerp. 

New York to Liverpool. 



Ocean Steamers Running from New York to the West Indies, South 
American Ports, Ac. 

NAME. NO. STEAMERS. SAILING FROM AND TO. 

Atlas Steamship Co 7 New York to Hayti, Jamaica, &c. 

Havana Direct Mail Line 5 New York to Havana. 

New York and Mexican S. S. Line 6 New York to Havana, Vera Cruz, &c. 

U. S. and Brazil S. S. Co 3 St. Thomas, W. I. , Para, & Rio Janeiro. 

United States Mail Steamer 1 New York to St. Domingo. 

Pacific Mail Steamship Co 4 New York to Aspin wall. 

" " " " 6 Panama to San Francisco. 

" " " " 7 San Francisco to Japan and China. 

t( <t ,, tc A j Shanghai Branch Line — Yokohama to 

1 Shanghai, &c. 

Australian and American Mail ) . S San Francisco to Honolulu and Aus- 
S. S. Co C ^ 1 tralia. 



PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY'S STEAMERS, sailing from 
New York to California, Japan and China, via Aspinwall and 
Panama. — Steamers leave New York on the 15th and 30th of each month. 
The Freight Steamers leave Jan. 9th, and every fourteen days thereafter, 
carrying Passengers, Mails and Freight to the Pacific Coast of Mexico, 
Central America, Peru, Chili, California, Japan and China. 

Steamers of the above Line leave San Francisco semi-monthly for Japan 
and China, connecting with Steamship Lines for different parts of the 
World.— H. J. BuLLAY, 8upt., Pier 34 North River, foot of Canal St., N. Y. 

Atlantic Line Steamers. — Henry Chauncey, Colon, Acapulco, and City of 
Panama. 

Pacific Line. — Arizona, Constitution, Montana, Colima, Granada and Dakota. 

Trans-Pacific Line. — Alaska, Cokn'ado^ China, Great Republic, City of Peking, 
City of Tokio, Oceanic, Belgic, and Gaelic. 

Shanghai Line.— Mitsu Bitshu (Japanese) Qo.— Costa Rica, Golden Age, Oregon- 
ian, and Nevada. — J. S. Cox, Agent, San Francisco, Cal. 

Australian and American Mail Steamship Company's Steamers. — City of 
San Francisco, City of Sydmy, City of New York, Zealandia,* and Australia, sail 
from San Francisco for Sydney, Australia, via Honolulu and Fiji Islands, 
stopping at New Zealand. — R. W. Forbes, Agent, 14 South William Street. 
New York. 



English Steamers running in the Line. 



OCEAN STEAMERS. 189 

OCEAN STEAMERS— QUICK PASSAGES. 

Anchor Line.— Steamer Ethiopia, ran from Londonderry, Ii'eland, to Sandy 
Hook, 1875, in 8 days, 18 hours. 

Cunard Line.— Steamer Russia, in May, 1869, ran from New York to Queens- 
town, Ireland, in 8 days, 2 hours and 34 minutes ; from Queenstown to New 
York, in 8 days. 

French Line.— Steamship Pereire, ran from New York to Brest, France, 
3,000 miles, in 7 days, 22 hours; Havre to New York, in 8 days, and 12 hours. 

Inman Line.— Steamer City of Berlin, ran from New York, (Sandy Hook), 
to Queenstown, 2,843 miles, in 7 days, 15 hours and 48 minutes; returned in 7 
days, 18 hours and 2 minutes.'^ City of Richmond, from New York to Queens- 
town, Dec. 1875, in 7 days, and 18 hours ; returned in 8 days, 12 minutes. 

White Star Line. — Steamer Adriatic, ran from Queenstown to New York, in 
7 days, 23 hours and 17 minutes; steamer Baltic, New York to Queenstown, in 
7 days, 20 hours and 9 minutes. 

*This was the fastest passage out and home ever made across the Atlantic, ac- 
complished by the new steamer " City of Berlin", in 1875. 



STEAMSHIP LINES SAILING FROM NEW YORK FOR DOMES- 
TIC PORTS. 

Alexandria, Vir. — Merchants' Line (New York, Alex. , Wash. & Georgetown S. 
S. Co.). Every Saturday at 4 P. M., from Pier 41 E. R. J. C. Kenyon, 
Agent, 226 South street. 

Boston, Mass. — Metropolitan S. 8. Co., Outside Line, every Tuesday, Thursday 
and Saturday, at 4 P. M., from Pier 11 N. R. R. F. Dimock, agent, 80 West 
street. 

Narragansett 8. 8. Co., via Newport and Fall River, daily from Pier 30 
N. R. , at 4 P. M. Borden & Lovell, agents, 70 West street. 

Stonington Line, via Stonington, daily from Pier 33 N. R., at 4 P. M. 
Agent on the Pier. 

Brunswick, Ga. — Fernandina Steamers, at Pier 3, N. R., receive freight for 
this place, and leave it on return trip to New York. 

Charleston, S. C. — New Tc/rk & Charleston 8. 8. Co. , every Wednesday and 
Saturday, at 3 P. M., from Pier 29, N. R. J. W. Quintard & Co., agents, 
177 West street. 

City Point, Va.— See " Norfolk, Vir." 

Fernandina, Fla. — Via Port Royal, S. C. Merchants' Line, about every Thurs- 
day at 3 P. M., from Pier 3, N. R. H. Gelpeke, agent, 5 William street. 

Galveston, TeyL.—Mallory's Line, every Saturday at 3 P. M., from Pier 20 E. R. 
C. H. Mallory & Co. , agents, 153 Maiden lane. Also via New Orleans, by 
Moi'gan's Line of steamers, from Pier 36 N. R. 

Georgetown, D. C. — See "Alexandria, Vir." 



190 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

Key West, Fla. — Mallory's Line of steamers for Galveston stop here with U. 8. 
mails, &c. See " Galveston, Tex." 

Lewes, Del. — Old Dominion 8. S. Co., about twice a week, at 4 P. M., from 
Pier 37 N. R 

New Bedford, Mass. — Pioneer Line, every day at 4 P. M., from Pier 39 E. 
R. Barling & Davis, agents, 46 South street. 

Newbern, N. C. — A steamer about every ten days from Pier 15 E. R, Josiah 

J. White, agent, 118 Wall street. 

New Orleans, Lou. — Morgan's Line. Every Saturday at 3 P. M., from Pier 36 
N. R. C. A. Whitney & Co., agents. Pier 36 K R. 

Cromicell Line. Every Saturday at 3 P. M. , from Pier 9 N. R. Freight 
received daily to 5 P. M. Clark & Seaman, agents, 86 West street. 

Norfolk, Va. — Old Dominion S. 8. Co. To Norfolk, Portsmouth, City Point and 
Richmond. Steamers sail regularly every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 
at 3 P. M., to all the above ports ; also, extra steamers leave frequently for 
Norfolk and Portsmouth on intermediate days. Oflflce, 197 Greenwich street. 

Philadelphia, Tenxi.— Clyde's Line, at 3 P. M., from Pier 33 E. R. W. P. 

Clyde & Co., agents, 6 Bowling Green and Pier 33 E. R. {8ee Adv.) 
Portland, Maine. — Portland & New York 8. 8. Co. Every Monday and 

Thursday, at 3 P. M., from Pier 38 E. R. J. F. Ames, agent, on Pier 38 

E. R. 

Port Royal, S. C— See " Fernandina, Fla. " 

Richmond, Vir.— See " Norfolk, Vir." 

Savannah, Geo. — Murray's Line. About every Tuesday, at 3 P. M., from Pier 
16 E. R. Murray, Ferris & Co., agents, 62 South street. 

Enfipire Line. About every Thursday and Saturday, at 3 P. M. , from Pier 
43 N. R. W. R. Garrison, agent, 5 Bowling Green. 

Black 8tar Line. About every Saturday, at 3 P. M., from Pier 13 N. R. 
R. LowDEN, agent, 93 West street. 

Wilmington, N. O. — Clyde's Line. About every Wednesday and Saturday, at 
3 P. M., from Pier 13 N. R. W. P. Clyde & Co., agents, 6 Bowling Green. 

Washington, D. C. — See "Alexandria, Vir." 

HUDSON RIVER STEAMERS. 

During the season of navigation, which usually lasts from March to December, 
lines of steamers run from New York to Yonkers, Nyack, Sing Sing, and Peek- 
skill, 45 miles, stopping at intermediate landings on both sides of the river. 

Lines of steamers also run to Peekskill, West Point, Newburgh, and Pough- 
keepsie, making landings on both sides of the river, carying passengers and 
freight. 

Steamers run from New York to Rondout, Ulster County, carrying passengers 
and freight, including a large amount of Lackawanna coal, brought by canal 



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DISTANCES, ETC., FROM NEW YORK TO PRINCIPAL CITIES. 191 



from northern Pennsylvania. Steamers also run from New York to Hudson, 
carrying passengers and freight. 

The People's Line of Steamers, of a large class, run from New York to Albany, 
145 miles ; also a Day Line of Steamers, passing up and down the noble Hudson 
hy daylight, connecting with the New York Central and other railroads. 

The New York and Troy Line of Steamers leave every evening, connecting 
Tv^ith railroads running north and west. 

During warm weather, the Albany and Troy Steamers are the favorite modes 
of travel for health and pleasure. 

LONG ISLAND SOUND STEAMERS. 

A line of steamers run from New York to New Haven, Conn. , connecting 
ivith railroads running north and cash, forming a through line of travel to Hart- 
ford, Springfield, and the north. 

A line of steamers run to New London and Norwich, Conn., connecting with a 
railroad line running to Worcester, Boston, etc. 

The Promdence and Stonington Line of Steamers run from Pier 33, North River, 
to Stonington, Conn. ; also, direct to Providence, R I. , from Pier 27, N. R. 
The Steamers landing at Stonington are of a large class and connect with railroads 
Tunning to Providence and Boston, Mass., forming a speedy mode of convey 
ance. First-class through fare, $4. 

The Fall River Line of Steamers, via Newport, form a through line of travel 
to Boston and all points east. These Steamers are of a large class, carrying 
passengers and freight. They leave daily, every afternoon, from Pier 28-, N. R. , 
foot of Murray Street. 

Steamers also run from New York to Bridgeport, Conn., and other ports on 
Long Island Sound, landing on the North Shore of Long Island. 



Distances and Mail T ^.8 
Cities. Miles. 

Augusta, Maine 404 

Bangor, Maine 476 

Baltimore, Md 190 

Boston, Mass 236 

Buffalo, N. y 424 

Burlington, Iowa 1,107 

Charleston, S. C 804 

Cheyenne, Wy. Ter 1,911 

Chicago, ni 900 

Cincinnati, Ohio 744 

Cleveland, Ohio 573 

Columbus, Ohio 624 

Des Moines, Iowa 1,259 

Detroit, Michigan 678 

Denver, Col 2,008 

Fort Wayne, Ind 748 

Indianapolis, Ind 812 

Kansas City, Mo 1,372 

Louisville, Ken 854 

Memphis, Tenn. . , , 1,165 



from New York to the principal cities. 

Cities. Miles. 

Milwaukee, Wis 988 

Mobile, Ala 1,235 

Montreal, Can 400 

Nashville, Tenn 1,005 

New Orleans, La 1,375 

Niagara Falls 450 

Omaha, Neb 1,395 

Pittsburgh, Penn 432 

Portland, Me 344 

Quebec, Can 520 

Richmond, Vir 343 

Salt Lake City, Utah 2,464 

San Francisco 3,252 

Savannah, Geo 928 

St. Louis, Mo., via. Fittsb'gh.1,060 

St. Paul, Minn 1,311 

Toledo, Ind 689 

Toronto, Can 532 

Washington, D. C 228 

Wilmington, N. C 593 



Hours. 
18 
20 
7 
10 
16 
44 
40 



29 
21 
25 
50 
24 



Hours. 
40 
69 
16 
46 
75 
17 
60 
15 
15 
24 
16 
120 
168 

40 
60 
27 
24 

8 



192 NEW YOEK AS IT IS. 

RAILROAD COMPANIES 

HAVING OFFICES IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK FOR THE SALE OP TICKETS. 

Atlantic Coast Line, 229 Broadway. 

Atlantic and Great Western, Ticket Office, 305 Broadway. 

Atchiflon, Topeka and Santa Fe, Office, 239 Broadway. L. H. Nutting, Gen, 

Agent. 
Baltimore and Ohio, Freight and Ticket Office, 261 & 315 Broadway. Fred. 

W. Rankin, Eastern Pass. Agent, 
Central, (of New Jersey,) 119 Liberty Street, and Piers 13 and 14 North River. 

H. P. Baldwin, Gen. Pass. Agent. |2^* Leave from foot of Liberty street. 
Central Vermont, 417 Broadway. 

Chesapeake and Ohio, Office, 229 Broadway. H. W. Carr, Agent, 
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, Freight Office, 317 Broadway. R. Ten 

Broeck, Agent. 
Chicago and Northwestern, Office, 52 Wall street, and 415 Broadway. 
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, Ticket Office, 257 Broadway. 
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, 319 Broadway. 

Cook's Tourist Offices, 261 B'way,614 Chestnut St., Phila., & Fleet St., London. 
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, 26 Exchange Place, and Piers 26 and 48, 

North River. 
Erie Railway, Ticket Office, 239 and 401 Broadway, and foot of Chambers 

street. Passengers leave from foot of Chambers street, and foot 23d street. 
Flushing and North Side, foot of James Slip, E. R., or 34th street. 
Grand Trunk, (Canada) Ticket Office, 175 Broadway. E. P. Beach, Gen. Agent. 
Great Southern MaU Route, Ticket Office, 303 Broadway. 
Great Western, (Canada, Ticket Office, 349 Broadway.) Gen- 
eral Ticket Accountant ; John Mxjl,fob,i>, Freight Agent. 
New York Central and Hudson River, Grand Central Depot. C. H. Ken- 

DRiCK, Ge7i. Ticket Agent. Ticket Office, 413 B'way. R. L. Crawford, Agent. 
Illinois Central, 9 Astor House. 
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, Ticket Office, 252 Broadway. A. S. 

Winston, Agent. 
Long Island Depot, James slip, E. R. 
Michigan Central, Ticket office, 349_ Broadway. John Mulford, Freight 

Agent. , Passenger Agent. 

Morris and Essex, Depot, foot of Barclay street, foot of Christopher street, 

and Pier 48, N. R. 
Newark and New York, foot of Liberty street. 
New Jersey Railroad and Trans. Com., Ill Liberty street, and foot of Cort- 

landt Street. 

New York and Harlem, Grand Central Depot, Fourth Avenue. 

New York and New Haven, Depot, Fourth Avenue, Grand Central Depot. 

New York and Oswego Midland, Erie R. R. Depot. 



KAILROAD AND EXPRESS COMPANIES. 193 

New Jersey Southern, Pier 8, N, R. 

New York and Flushing, foot James slip, E, R 

New York, Philadelphia and Washington Air Line, Ticket Office, foot of 
Cortlandt street. 

Northern Pacific, Office, Land Department, No. 23 Fifth Avenue, New York. 

Ohio and Mississippi, Office, 261 Broadway. 

Panama, No. 7 Nassau street, and Pier 42 N. R. , foot of Canal street. 

Pennsylvania Central, Ticket Offices, No. 1 Astor House, Nos. 526 and 944 
Broadway ; No. 8 Battery Place, and at the Depots, foot of Desbrosses and 
Cortlandt streets. S. Carpenter, General Passenger Agent, 526 Broadway. 

Piedmont Air Line, 9 Astor House. 

Staten Island; Foot of Whitehall street. 

Stonington Line, 319 Broadway. 

Union and Central Pacific, 287 Broadway. F. Knowland, General Agent. 

Virginia and Tennessee Air Line, 303 Broadway. C. E. Evans, Agent. 



THE NEW RAILROAD TO PHILADELPHIA. 

"The Neio York and Philadelphia New Line" having completed the laying 
of its track, forming a junction with the Central New Jersey Railroad and 
the North Pennsylvania Railroad, will immediately complete the necessary pro- 
visions for its freight and passenger traffic. The road was built to break the 
monopoly of railroad business between New York and Philadelphia, and the 
company expects that it will immediately on its completion receive a large share 
of the business between the two cities. The length of the new line, from Lib- 
erty street, New York, to Berk street, Philadelphia, is eighty-eight miles, divided 
as follows : Central Railroad of New Jersey, from New York to Bound Brook, 
32.4 miles ; Delaware and Bound Brook Railroad, 27 miles ; North Pennsylvania 
Railroad, Yardley ville to Philadelphia, 28. 6 miles. By the Pennsylvania Rail- 
road Company's leased line, from New York to Germantown Junction the dis- 
tance is 85.6 miles ; to Mantua Junction, West Philadelphia, it is 88 miles ; to 
New York Depot, Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Market and Thirty-second 
streets, it is 90 miles. The new line has its freight accommodations in this city 
at the foot of Liberty street, and in Philadelphia at Willow street. For pas- 
senger travel excellent accommodations are promised by the new company. 

EXPRESS COMPANIES IN THE CITIES OF NEW YORK, PHILA- 
DELPHIA, &c. 

Adams Express, 59 Broadway, New York ; 40 Court street, Boston ; 531 
Chestnut street and Sixteenth and Market streets, Philadelphia ; 164 Baltimore 
street, Baltimore ; 225 Pennsylvania avenue, Washington. 

American Express, 65 Broadway, New York ; 98 Washington street, Boston; 
Albany, Buffalo and the West. 

Central Express, 59 Broadway, New York ; 531 Chestnut street, Philadel- 
phia. 



194 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

New Jersey Express, 59 Broadway, New York ; Newark, Trenton &c., and 
531 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. 

National Express, 65 Broadway, New York ; Albany. Troy, Saratoga 
Springs, Montreal, &c. 

Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Co.'s Express, 624 Chestnut street, 
Philadelphia; Reading, Easton, &c., and 22 College Place, New York. 

Southern Express, 59 Broadway. 

United States Express, 82 Broadway, New York ; Buffalo, Cleveland, De- 
troit, Chicago and the West, 

Wells, Fargo «& Co.'s Express, 65 Broadway, New York; Salt Lake City, 
Utah ; Sacramento, San Francisco, &c. 

Westcott Express Co., 785 Broadway and 181 Fifth Avenue. 



FOREIGN EXPRESS CCMPANIES. 

American-European, 72 Broadway. Austin Baldwin & Co. 

American, Foreign and European, 40 Broadway. 

British and Foreign, 68 Broadway. 

Carrington & Co., 3 Bowling Green. 

European Express, 45 Broadway. 

Morris European, 50 Broadway. 

Jones, S. D., Foreign Express Company, 48 Broadway. 

European and East India, 48 Broadway. 



TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. 

Since the completion of the first line of Telegraph, in 1844, between the Cities 
of Washington and Baltimore, a distance of forty miles, the Government of the 
United States having appropriated $30,000 for that purpose to the late Prof. 
Morse, the construction of telegraph lines has increased with wonderful 
rapidity. Now, 1875, the Western Union Telegraph Co. alone has 175,000 miles 
of wire in use, extending across the Continent of America, and from near the 
Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico, connecting with transatlantic 
lines to almost all parts of the habitable globe. 

TELEGRAPH COMPANIES, 

Having Offices in the City of New York : 

Anglo-American Telegraph Company. Five cables ; capital, £7,000,000. 
Principal offices, London, England. Agents in America, Western Union Tele- 
graph Co. (H^^The Line extends from Plaister Cove, N. S., to Valencia, Ire- 
land. Cyrus W. Field, Director, New York. 

American District Telegraph, No. 63 Broadway, New York. This Com- 
pany will furnish a Telegraphic Apparatus to Private Dwellings, Stores, Offices, 
lieslauiants, &c., connecting Subscribers with District Offices, affording protec- 
tion and convenience by means of a private police and messenger service. 
Elisha W. Andrews, President; A. W. Greenlbaf, Treasurer; C. B. Hotch- 
Kiss, Secretary. 



TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. 195 

Atlantic and Pacific, 145 Broadway. Capital, $10,000,000. Thos. T. Eck- 
ERT, President; Albert B. Chandler, Secretary. These lines extend across 
the Continent, from New York to San Francisco, California. Messages trans- 
mitted by the Direct Cable Company to Europe and all parts of the world. 

The Franklin Telegraph Co., 145 Broadway. Capital, $1,000,000, Extends 
from Boston, Massachusetts, to Washington, D. C, including all intermediate 
cities. It connects at its termini with all the opposition Telegraph Companies, 
which extend over the greater part of the United States and Canada. Thos. 
T. EcKERT, President ; Alfred Nelson, Treasurer. 

Direct United States Cable Company, 16 Broad street. New York. In 
direct communication through the Company's own Cables with Europe, and 
connected with all Telegraphic Lmes throughout the entire world. Opened to 
the public September 15th, 1875 ; extends from Ballingskelleg's Bay to Rye 
Eeach, N. H., 3,060 miles. 

Gold and Stock, No. 195 Broadway. Capital, $3,500,000. This Company 
furnishes Gold and Stock Quotations, Cotton and Produce Exchange, and gene- 
ral Commercial News Reports to its subscribers, by Telegraphic Printing In- 
struments, at their respective places of business. Marshall Lepferts, Presi- 
dent ; George B. Prescott, Vice-President; Henry H. Ward, Secretary and 
Treasurer. 

International Ocean. Office, Western Union Telegraph Company, New 
York. Capital, $1,500,000. Extends from Lake City, Florida, to Havana, 
Cuba. William Orton, President. 

Erie Raitway, No. 145 Broadway and Eighth Avenue, cor. West 23d st. 

Southern and Atlantic Telegraph Company, No. 51 New street. New 
York. Connect with the Franklin Telegraph Line at Washington, D. C, and 
^extend through the principal points in the Southern States. 

Western Union, 193 and 195 Broadway. Capital, $41,000,000. This 
■Company reaches across the Continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, 
and embraces every State and Territory in the Union but Arizona. They also 
connect with Canada Lines of Telegraph, and with the Transatlantic and 
Cuba Cables, having in use 175,000 miles of wire. William Orton, President; 
A. R. Brewer, Secretary ; R. H. Rochester, Treasurer. 



THE PRINCIPAL SUB-MARINE CABLES . 

Are the Anglo- American, Anglo-Mediterranean, British-Indian and Ex- 
tension, British Australian, China Sub-Marine, China and Japan Ex- 
tension, Cuba Sub-Marine, Direct United States Cable, Falmouth, 
Gibraltar and Malta, Great Northern Danish Company, Indo-Euro- 
pean, International Ocean, Jersey and Guernsey, Marseilles, Al- 
giers AND Malta, Panama and South Pacific, Societe du Cable Trans- 
atlantic Francais, Sub-Marine— Dover, England, to Calais, France ; Sub- 
Marine — England to Denmark. 

5t^° A great many Cables of short length, not included in this list, are now 
at work in various parts of the world. 



196 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

FOREIGN CONSULS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 

Argentine Rep. Edward F. Davison (C. G.), 128 Pearl street 

Austria-Hungary. Theo. A. Havemeyer (C. Q.), Hugo Fritsch (C), 38 Broadway, 

Belgium. Charles Mali (C), 68 Worth street. 

Bolivia. Jose Pol (C. G.). 

Brazil. Louis H. F. do Aguiar (C. G.), 13 Broadway. 

Uiili. I. B. Casablanca (V. C). 

CohmUa. Miguel Salgar (C. G.), AVilliam street. 

Co^ta Bica. Jose M. Munos (C. G.). 

Denmark. Henrik BraCn (C), 52 Broadway 

Equador. Jose Jerman Ribsen (C). 

France. L. de Forest C. G.), 4 Bowling Green. 

Germany. H. A. Shumacher (C. G.), F. Hinkel (C), August Feigel V. C), No. 

2 Bowling Green 
Chxat Britain. Edward M. Archibald (C. G.), John P. Edwards (V. C), Gilbert 

Fraser (2d V. C), 17 Broadway. 
Greece. D. N. Botassi (C. G.), 56 Stone street. 
Guatemala. Jacobo Baiz (C. G.). 

Hawaiian Islands. Elisha H. Allen (C. G.), 24 Beaver street. 
Hayti. Charles A. Van Bokkelen (C), 29 Front street. 
Italy. Ferdinando de Lucu (C. G.), 7 Broadway. 
Japan. Tetonoske Tomita (V. C), Exchange place. 
Mexico. Juan N. Navarro (C. G.), 52 Exchange place. 
Monaco. Auguste A. Jacquemin (C), 41 Bowling Green. 
Netherlands. Rudolph C. Burlage (C. G.), 45 Exchange place. 
Nicaragua. Alex. I. Cotheal (C. G.), J. R. Espriella (C), 59 William street. 
Paraguay. Rafael R. Barthold (C. G.), 40 Stone street. 
Peru. Jose C. Trary (C), 39 Broadway. 

Portugal. A. M. du C. S. Major (C. G.), G. Amsinck (V. C), 148 Pearl street. 
Russia. Waldemar Bodesco (C. G.), Robert Schultze (V. C), 52 Exchange place. 
Spain. Hipolito de Uriarte (C. G.), F. Granados (V. C), M. S. de Saurez 

(Secretary), 29 Broadway. 
San Boudngo. Leonardo Del Monte (C), William street. 

Sweeden and Norway. C. Bors(C.), John W. Tornoe (V. C), 18 Exchange place. 
Switzerland. Jacques Bertschmann (C), Adrian Iselin (V C), 60 Wall street, 
Uruguay. Edwin C. B. Garcia (C. G.), Carlos E Leland (C), 76 Wall street. 
Venezuela. Sacinto G. Cob (C), Antonia A. Munoz (V. C), 24 Broadway. 



PART IX. 



OROWTH OF BANKS AND BANK CAPITAL DURING THE PAST 
SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS. 

In the Year 1800 there were but two Incorporated Banks in the City of New 
York, and in 1612 eight Banks. 

1. The Bank of New York, incorporated March 1791, to endure until the 
second Tuesday in May 1811 ; charter was renewed until the second Tuesday 
in May 1833. Renewed in 1831 to tlie 1st January, 1853. Capital, $1,000,000. 
Reorganized in 1853, with capital of $3,000,000. In July, 1865, became a 
National, Bank. 

3. The Manhattan Company was incorporated inl799 for the purpose of 
supplying the City of New York with pure and wholesome water, and for 
other purposes. Charter unlimited. Captal, $2,050,000. 

3. The Merchants' Bank, incorporated in 1805, to endure until the first Tues- 

day in June, 1832. Renewed in 1831, till 1857. Capital, $1,490,000. In 1857 
the capital increased to $3,000,000. July, 1865, became a National Bank. 

4. The Mechanics' Bank, incorporated 23d of March, 1810, with a capital of 

$1,500,000. In 1811, increased the capital to $2,000,000. To endure until 
the 2d Tuesday in April, 1832. Renewed in 1831 till 1855. Reorganized 
in 1857, and 1865 became a National Bank. 

5. The Union Bank, incorporated March, 1811, to endure until 1831. Renewed 

in 1831 till 1853. Capital, $1,000,000. In 1833 capital increased to $1,500,- 
000. In July, 1865, became a National Bank. 

6. Bank of America, chartered in 1812 for twenty years ; renewed till 1853. 

Capital, $2,001,200. In 1865 became a National Bank. 

7. The Phenix Bank, chartered June 15th, 1812, for twenty years. Continued 

to 1854. Capital $1,500,000. In 1865 became a National Bank. 

-8. The City Bank, incorporated in 1812 for twenty years. Extended in 1831 
for twenty years. Capital, $720,000 ; reorganized in 1851, with a capital 
of $1,000,000 ; in 1865 became a National Bank. 
The above eigJit Banks, with an aggregate capital of $10,661,200, were in ope- 
ration in the City of New York prior to and during the War of 1812, no new 
banks being chartered for several years thereafter. 

197 



198 



NEW YOKK AS IT IS. 



BANK STATEMENT— Continued. 
According to " Williams' Begister," issued in 1840, there were 18 Banks', 
subject to the Safety Fund Act, and six Banks not subject, located in the City 
of New York, at the above date, viz. : 

Abstract of the Bank Commissioner's Report, January 24, 1840. 

SAFETY FUND BANKS. 



Incor- 
pora- 
ted. 



1791 
1805 
1810 
1811 
1812 
1812 
1812 
1823 
1829 
1829 
1830 
1830 
1830 
1832 
1833 
1834 
1834 
1836 



Names of Banks. 



Capital. 



Circula- 
tion. 



Ind. 
Deposits. 



Loans. &c. 



Specie. 



Bank of New York 

Merchant's Bank 

Mechanics' Bank 

Union Bank 

Bank of America 

Phenix Bank 

City Bank 

Tradesmen's Bank 

Merchant's Exchange Bank 

National Bank* 

Mechanics & Traders' 

Butchers & Drovers' Bank 

Greenwich Bank 

Leather Manufacturers' Bank . . 

Seventh Ward Bank 

Commercial Bankt 

Lafayette Bankt 

Bank of the State of New York 

Totals 



$1,000,000 

1,490,000 

2,000,000 

1,000,000 

2,001.200 

1,.500.000 

720^000 

400,000 

750,000 

750,000 

200,000 

500,000 

200,000 

600.000 

500,000 

500,000 

500.000 

2,000,000 



$521,665 
299,310 
304,032 
269,997 
359,197 

98,402 
144,986 
106,835 
117,573 
179,193 

78,875 
143,829 

57,761 
122,005 
116,106 
156,929 

90,601 
247.365 



$901,284 

1,098,590 

724,944 

573,057 

2,558,281 

613,642 

460,819 

281,664 

302,864 

388,529 

115,458 

256,738 

62,024 

429,213 

120,503 

122,712 

83,506 

926,519 



$1,873,649 

2.053,578 

2,364,164 

1,735,165 

2,552,170 

967,832 

1,038,780 

681,716 

1,026,685 

1,078,971 

264,517 

715,168 

263,337 

923,323 



660,252 

2,278,720 



$256,185 
431,731 
352,615 
201,126 
886,033 
184,187 
124,681 

62,914 
147,859 
140,443 

42,320 
117,509 

33,022: 
177,643. 

37,461 

50,561 



$16,611,200 



$3,414,658 



$10,020,347 



$26,900,173 



$3,648,929- 



BANKS NOT SUBJECT TO THE SAFETY FUND. 



Incor- 
pora- 
ted. 


Names of Banks. 


Capital. 


Circula- 
tion. 


Ind. 
Deposits. 


Loans, &c. 


Specie.. 


1799 




$2,050,000 
500,000 
500,000 
600,000 
400,000 
200,000 


$574,791 
147,564 


$908,248 
395,952 


$2,318,848 
79i',571 




1821 
1823 
1824 


North River Bank 

Delaware & Hudson Canal Co. . . 
Fulton Bank 


.... 


1824 
1825 


Chemical Manufacturing Co 

New York Dry Dock Co 


81,640' 










$3,650,000 


.... 









* Now Gallatin National Bank. t Failed. 

X Incorporated in the year 1799, for the purpose of supplying the City of New York with 
pure and wholesome water, and with the privilege of using their surplus funds in the pur- 
chase of public or other stock, or in any moneyed transactions or operations. Clarter un- 
limited. 



NEW YORK CITY BANKS. 199 

BANKING ASSOCIATIONS— 1840. 

In addition to the Incorporated Banks in operation in 1840, there were the 
following Banking Associations, formed under the General Banking Law : 

Agency of the Bank of the United States (Philadelphia), 34 Wall Street ; 
George Griswold and Richard Alsop, Associates. 

North American Trust and Banking Company; Capital, $2,000,000; Jo- 
seph D. Beers, President. 

Mechanics' Banking Association; Capital, $632,000; E. D. Comstock. 
President. 

American Exchange Bank ; Capital, $1,000,000; David Leavitt, Presi- 
dent. 
Bank op Commerce; Capital, $5,000,000; John A. Stevens, President. 

New York Banking Company; Capital, $1,000,000; John Delafield, Presi- 
dent. 

The aggregate capital of the five Associate Banks, independent of the United 
(States Agency, was $9,000,000. 



TOTAL NUMBER OF BANKS AND BANK CAPITAL, IN 1840, IN 
NEW YORK CITY. 

18 Safety Fund Banks. $16,611,200 

6 Banks not subject to the Safety Fund 3,650,000 

6 Associated Banks . 9,000,000 

30 Grand total $29,261,200 



NEW YORK CITY BANKS. 



RULES AND REGULATIONS. 

There are now (1876), seventy-five Banks in operation in the City of New 
York, of which forty-eight are National Banks, and twenty-seven State Banks, 
having an aggregate capital of $84,115,200. 

The Banks are open daily, from 10 A. M. to 3 P. M., except Sundays, Christ- 
mas Day, New Year's Day, Washington's Birthday, the Fourth of July, Deco- 
ration Day, Thanksgiving Day, and the day for holding State elections. 

The interest for discount in the Banks of this City and State is fixed at 7 per 
cent, per annum. Three days of grace are allowed, and the discount taken for 
the same. 

Deposits of money or notes for collection must be entered in the dealer's bank- 
book at the time such deposit is made. 



200 



NEW YORK AS IT IS, 



BANK CLEARING-HOUSE. 

The New York Cleaking-House Association commenced its operations 
on the 11th day of October, 1853, and consists at the present time (1875) of 
fifty-nine banks, located in the City of New York. The transactions of the 
fiscal year, ending October 1st, 1875, were $24,273,848,191, and the average 
daily transactions for the same period were $79,326,301. 

WILLIAM A. CAMP, 48 Wall Street, 

Manager. 



BANKS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 

NATIONAL AND STATE BANKS. 



American Exchange,* 128 Broadway. 
Capital, $5,000,000. Organized, 1838. 
Reorganized 1805 as a National Bank. 
George S. Coe, Pres. ; Edmond 
Willson, Cashier ; Dumont Clarke, 
Ass't Cashier. 

Bank op America, f 46 Wall street. 
Chartered 1812. Reorganized, 1853. 
Capital, $3,000,000. Wm. L. Jen- 
kins, Pres. ; Robert Jaffrey, Cashier. 

Bank op Commerce,* Nassau cor. of 
Cedar. Capital, $10,000,000. Organ- 
ized, 1839. Robert Lenox Kennedy, 
President ; George T. Adel, Vice- 
Pres. ; Henry F. Vail, Cashier ; 
Richard King, Ass't Cashier. 

Bank op New York,* 48 Wall street. 
Organized, June 9th, 1784. Incorpo- 
rated 1791. Renewed 1831. Reorgan- 
ized in 1853. Capital, $3,000,000.. 
Charles M. Fry, Pres. ; Henry Ooth- 
out, Vice-President ; Richard B. Fer- 
ris, Cashier. 

Bank op North America,! 44 Wall 
street. Incorporated in 1851. Reor- 
ganized, 1869. Capital, $1,000,000. 
Wiliam Dowd, Pres. ; J. A. Beards- 
ley, Cashier. 

Bank op the Metropolis, f 31 Union 
Square. Organized, 1871. Capital, 
500,000. Robert Schell, Pres. ; Geo. 
M. Groves, Vice-Pres. ; Tlieo. Rogers, 
Cashier. 

Bank op the Republic,* Wall cor. 
Broadway. Organized, 1851. Capi- 
tal, $2,000,000. R. H. Lowry, Pres. ; 
H. W. Ford, Cashier. 



Bank op the State op New York,* 
33 William street. Incorporated, 1836. 
Reorganized, 1865. Capital, $2,000,- 
000. G. W. Duer, Pres.; Richard 
Patrick, Vice-Pres. ; Charles B. Van 
Wyck, Cashier. 

Bowery,* 62 Bowery. Organized, 
1865. Capital, $250,000. Henry P. 
Degraaf, Pres. ; R. Hamilton, Cash- 
ier. 

Broadway,* 237 Broadway. Organ- 
ized, 1849. Capital, $1,000,000. P. 
A. Palmer, Pres. ; Charles Burkhal- 
ter, Vice-Pres.; John L. Everitt, 
Cashier. 

Bull's Head,! 340 Third avenue. Or- 
ganized, 1854. Capital, $300,000. 
James E. Kelley, Pres. ; A. S. Cam- 
eron, Vice-Pres., George F. Vail, 
Cashier. 

Butchers and Drover's,* 124 Bow- 
ery. Incorporated in 1830. Reorgan- 
ized in 1853. Capital, $500,000. 
Robert P. Perrin, Pres. ; G. G. Brink- 
erhoff. Cashier. 

Central,* 320 Broadway. Organized, 
1864. Capital, $2,000,000. W. A. 
Wheelock, Pres. ; Wm. M. BHss, 
Vice-Pres. ; Edward SkilHn, Cashier. 

Chatham,* 196 Broaaway. Organ- 
ized, . Capital, $450,000. Jos. 

M. Cooper, Pres. ; H. W. Belcher, 
Vice-Pres. ; George M. Hard, Cashier. 

Chemical,* 270 Broadway. Incorpora- 
ted in 1824. Reorganized, 1844. 
Capital, $300,000. John Q. Jones, 
Pres. ; George G. Williams, Cashier. 



National Banks.- 



t State Banks. 



NEW YORK CITY BANKS. 



Citizens',* 401 Broadway. Organized 
1851. Capital, $600,000. Sylvester 
R. Comstock, Pres. ; W. H. Oakley, 
Cashier. 

CiTY,^ 52 Wall street. Incorporated in 
1812. Reorganized, 1851. Capital, 
$1,000,000. Moses Taylor; Pres.; 
B. Cartwright, Cashier. 

Continental,* 7 Nassau street. Or- 
ganized, 1853. Reorganized in 1865. 
Capital, $1,500,000. Charles Bard, 
Pres. • John T. Agnew, Vice-Pres. ; 
W. J. Harris, Cashier. 

Corn Exchange,! 13 William street. 
Organized, 1852. Capital, $1,000,- 
000. Wm. A. Falls, Pres. ; Wm. A. 
Nash, Cashier. 

Dry Goods, f 345 Broadway. Organ- 
ized, 1871. Capital, $1,000,000. Wm 
P. Brintnall, Pres. ; Arthur W. Sher- 
man, Cashier. 

East River,* 682 Broadway. Organ- 
ized, 1852, reorganized, 1865 ; capital, 
$350,000; Charles Jenkins, Presi- 
dent; Z. E. Newell, Cashier. 

Eleventh Ward,! Avenue D, corner 
East Tenth street. Organized, 1867 ; 
capital, $200,000 ; John Englis, Pres- 
ident ; C. E. Brown, Cashier. 

Fifth Avenue, Fifth avenue, corner 
Forty-fourth street. Organized, 1875 ; 
capital, $100,000; Philip Van Vol- 
kenburgh, President ; John H. Sher- 
wood, Vice-President ; A. S. Fris- 
sell. Cashier. 

First National,* 94 Broadway. Or- 
ganized, 1863; capital, $500,000; S. 
C. Thompson, President; George 
F. Baker, Cashier. 

Fifth National,* Third avenue, near 
Twenty-seventh street. Organized, 

; capital, $150,000 ; Richard 

' Kelley, President ; A. Thompson, 
Cashier. 

Fourth National,* Nassau, corner 
Pine street. Organized, 1864 ; capital, 
$5,000,000; P. C. Calhoun, Presi- 



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dent ; John M. Firman, Vice-Presi- 
dent ; Anthony Lane, Cashier. 
Fulton,* Fulton, corner Pearl. Incor- 
porated, 1824, reorganized, 1865 ; cap- 
ital, $500,000 ; Thos. Monahan, Pres- 
ident ; R. M. Buchanan, Cashier. 

^^oan '^''^'* ^^ ^a" street. Organized, 
1829; capital, $1,500,000 ; F. D. Tap- 
pen President; A. A. Stevens, 
Cashier. 

German American (The),! 120 Broad- 

aal'nnP''^^'''''^^' ^^^^ ' capital, $1,- 
000,000 ; Henry Rocholl, President ; 
M. Hartley, Vice-President; F. M. 
Reading, Cashier. 

German Exchange, f 245 Bowery Or- 
ganized, 1872 ; capital. $200,000 ; M. 
J. Adrian, President ; Adam Fahs, 
Cashier. 

Germania,! 185 Bowerv. Organized, 
1869 ; capital, $200,000 ; C. Schwar- 
zaelder, President ; G. Schreitmiller, 
Cashier. 

Grand Central,! 760 Third avenue. 

Organized, ; capital, $100,000; 

Chas. E. Lowe, President; Isaac 
Anderson, Cashier. 

Greenwich,! 402 Hudson street. In- 
corporated in 1830 ; reorganized 
1855; capital, $200,000; John S. Mc- 
Lean, President ; Wm. Hawes, Cash- 
ier, 

Grocers'*, 59 Barclay street. Organ- 
ized, 1869; capital, $300,000; Samuel 
B. White, President ; B. E. Watson, 
Cashier. 

Hanover*, 33 Nassau street. Organ- 
ized, 1851; capita], $1,000,000; James 
Stuart, President ; George W. Per- 
kins, Cashier. 

Harlem,! 2,279 Third avenue. Organ- 
ized, 1868; capital, $100,000; Addi- 
son Smith, President ; Wm. T, Ryer- 
son, Cashier, 

Importers and Traders'* 247 Broad- 
way, Organized 1855 ; capital, $1,- 
500,000; James Buell, President; 



National Banks. 



t State Banks. 



202 



NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



Russell Sage, Vice-President ; E. H. 
Perkins, Jr. , Cashier. 

Island City (State), 23 Abingdon sq. 
Organized, 1870 ; capital, $200,000; T. 
J. Coleman, President; J. O. Noxon, 
Cashier. 

Irving*, Greenwich, corner Warren 
street. Organized, 1851 ; capital, $500- 
000 ; Isaac Odell, President ; John 
L. Jewett, Cashier. 

Leather Manufacturers'*, 29 Wall 
street. Incorporated in 1832 ; reor- 
ganized in 1862 ; capital, $600,000 ; 
N F Palmer, President ; David L. 
Holden, Cashier. 

LoANERs'f, 22 Nassau street (for loan- 
ing upon collaterals in hand). Organ- 
ized, 1870 ; capital, $500,000 ; Dorr 
Russell, President ; A. D. Russell, 
Cashier. 

Manhattan, 40 Wall street. Chartered 
1799 ; unlimited ; capital, $2,050,000; 
J. J. Morrison, President ; J. S. Har- 
berger, Cashier. 

Manufacturers andMerchants'I ,561 
Broadway. Organized, 1859 ; capital, 
$500,000 ; A. Masterton, President, 
T. D. Warren, Cashier. 

Marine*, 78 Wall street. Organized 
1853 ; capital, $400,000 ; J. D. Fish, 
President ; Jos. W. Elwell, Vice- 
President ; Jas. Delamater, Cashier. 

Market*, Pearl, corner Beekman. In- 
corporated 1852 ; reorganized, 1865 ; 
capital, $1,000,000 ; R. Bayles, Pres- 
ident ; A. Gilbert, Cashier. 

Mechanics'*, 33 Wall street. Incorpor- 
ated in 1810 ; reorganized, 1857 ; cap- 
ital, $2,000,000 ; Benj. B. Sherman, 
President; W. H. Cox, Cashier. 

Mechanics' Banking Association*, 38 
Wall street. Organized, 1838; capital, 
$500,000 ; Franklin Chandler, Presi- 
dent ; J. H. B. Edgar, Cashier. 

Mechanics and Traders'*, 153 Bow- 
ery. Organized, 1831 ; reorganized 
1857 ; capital, $600,000; E.D.Brown, 
President ; George W.Youle, Cashier. 



Mercantile*, 191 Broadway. Organ- 
ized, 1850 ; capital, $1,000,090 ; Nor- 
man White, President ; N. Amer- 
man. Cashier. 

Merchants*, 43 Wall street. Incor- 
porated in 1805 ; reorganized, 1865 ; 
capital, $3,000,000 ; Jacob D. Ver- 
milye. President ; William Barton, 
Vice - President ; Cor. V. Banta, 
Cashier. 

Merchants' Exchange* 257 Broad- 
way. Organized, 1829 ; capital, 
$1,000,000 , Wm. A. Thomson, Pres- 
ident; JohnG. Davis, Vice-President;. 
Allen S. Apgar, Cashier. 

Metropolitan*, 108 Broadway. Or- 
ganized, 1852 ; capital, $4,000,000 ; 
John E. Williams, President; George 
J. Seney, Cashier. 

Murray HiLLf , 558 Third avenue. Or- 
ganized, 1870. Capital, $200,000. 
Wm. A. Darling, President ; James 
Striker, Cashier. 

NASSAuf , Nassau, corner Beekman. Or- 
ganized, 1852. Capital, $1,000,000. 
F. M. Harris, President ; Augustine 
Smith, Vice-President; Wm. H. 
Rogers, Cashier. 

National Currency*, 92 Broadway. 
Organized, 1864. Capital, $100,000. 
F. F. Thompson, President; J. H. 
L. Morford, Cashier. 

New York County*, 81 Eighth ave- 
nue. Organized, . Capital, 

$200,000. Francis Leland, Presi- 
dent; Geo. H. Wyckoff, Cashier. 

New York Gold ExcHANGEf, 52 
Broadway. Organized, 1866. Capi- 
tal, $500,000. R. L. Edwards, Presi- 
dent; Wm. S. Mathews, Cashier, 

New York National Exchange*, 136 
Chambers street. Organized, 1851. 
Capital, $500,000. D. B. Halstead, 
President; C. B. Outcalt, Cashier. 

Ninth National*, 407 Broadway. Or- 
ganized, 1864. Capital, $1,500,000. 
JohnT. Hill, President; H. H. Naz- 
ro. Cashier. 



* National Banks. 



t State Banks. 



NEW YORK CITY BANKS. 



205 



North EiVERf, 187 Greenwich street. 
Incorporated in 1821; reorganized, 
1842. Capital, $400,000. L. Apgar, 
President; A. B. Hayes, Cashier. 

ORiENTALf, 122 Bowery. Organized, 
1853. Capital, $300,000. Washing- 
ton A. Hall, President; H. T. Chap- 
man, jr.. Cashier. 

PACiFicf, 470 Broadway. Chartered 
Oct., 1850. Eeorganized, 1869. 
Capital, $422,700. Jacob Campbell, 
President ; Robert Buck, Cashier. 

Park*, 214 Broadway. Organized, 1856; 
capital, $2,000,000. Wm. K. Kitchen, 
President ; J. S, Worth, Cashier. 

PEOPLE'sf , 393 Canal street ; Organized, 
1851 ; capital, $412,500 ; C. F. Hun- 
ter, President ; G. I. N. Zabriskie, 
Cashier. 

Phenix*, 45 Wall street. Incorporated, 
1812 ; reorganized, 1854 ; capital, 
$1,800,000 ; P. M. Bryson, President; 
Eugene Dutlif, Vice-President ; J. 
Parker, Cashier. 

PRODUCEf , 5 College place. Organized, 
1870 ; capital, $250,000 ; T. L. 
Raymond, President ; Samuel Con- 
over, Cashier. 

St. Nicholas*, 7 Wall st. Organized, 
1852 ; capital, $1,000,000 ; J. Lee 
Smith, President ; Arch. Parkhurst, 
Cashier. 

Second National*, Fifth avenue, cor. 
23d street ; Organized, 1863 ; capital, 
$300,000 ; Amos H. Trowbridge, 
President : O. D. Roberts, Cashier. 



Seventh Ward* 234 Pearl street. 
Incorporated, 1833 ; reorganized, 
1865 ; capital, $300,000 ; G. Mon- 
tague, President; J. D. W. Grady,, 
Cashier. 

Shoe and Leather*, 271 Broadway. 
Organized, 1852; capital, $1,000,000 ; 
A. V. Stout, President; J. M. Crane, 
cashier. 

Sixth National, West 35th st. , corner 

Broadway ; Organized, ; capital, 

$200,000; Cassius Darling, President ;, 
A. E. Colson, Cashier. 

Tenth National*, 15 Nassau street. 
Organized, 1864; capital, $1,000,000 ; 
Walter B. Palmer, President ; George 
Ackerman, Cashier. 

Third National*, 29 Pine street. 
Organized, 1863; capital, $1,000,000 ;. 
J. F. D. Lanier, President ; C. N. 
Jordan, Cashier, 

Tradesmen's*, 291 Broadway. Incor- 
porated ,1823 ; reorganized in 1855 ;. 
capital, $1,000,000 ; Richard Berry, 
President ; A. Halsey, Cashier. 

Union* 34 Wall street. Incorporated, 
1811 ; reorganized in 1853 ; capital, 
$1,500,000 ; De Witt C. Hays, Pres^ 
ident ; Wm. B. Isham, Vice-Presi- 
dent ; James M. Lewis, Cashier. 

West SiDEf, 464 8th avenue. Organ- 
ized 1869 ; capital, $200,000 ; George 
Moore, President ; John W. B. Dob- 
ler, Cashier. 



FOREIGN BANKS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 



Bank of British North America 
(Montreal), 52 Wall street. 

Canadian Bank of Commerce (Tor- 
onto), 50 Wall street. Capital and 
surplus, $7,900,000, gold ; Agents, 
James G. Harper and J. H. Goadby. 

Bank of Montreal, 59 & 61 Wall 
street ; R. Bell and C. F. Smithers, 
Agents. 



Merchants' Bank of Canada, 62 Wall 
street; capital, $9,000,000 gold ; paid 
up, $8,102, 046, gold; bills of Exchange 
bought and sold, commercial credits- 
granted, drafts on Canada issued, 
bills collected, and other banking 
business transacted. Walter Watson 
and Wm. J. Ingram, Agents; Londoa 
agency, 32 Lombard street. 



* National Banks. 



t State Banks, 



204 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

RISE AND GROWTH OF SAVINGS BANKS DURING THE PAST 
FIFTY-SIX YEARS. 

In 1840 there were only four Savings Banks in operation in tlie City of New 
York, as follows : 

(Copied from Williams' Annual Register for 1840.) 

1. Bank for Savings in the City op New York. Incorporated March 26, 

1819. John Pintard, Preddent. Assets, January, 1830, $2,098,394 ; assets. 

1840, $3,228,303. 
The bank had been in operation, at the latter period, twenty and a half years, 

during which time it had opened 66,169 accounts, and received altogether 

from depositors,. $15,928,622 

To which add interest up to 1st January, 1840 - 1,693, 164 

$17,621,786 
Closed, during the same period, 39,712 accounts, and paid out 14,496,240 

Leaving 26,457 accounts entitled to this balance $3,125,546 

In 1858 the assets were $8,990,840 

In 1875 the assets had increased to - 22,533,823 

2. Seamen's Bank for Savings. Incorporated in 1829. Benjamin Strong, 

President. 

Assets in 1840 .-. $142,791 

Assets in 1858 7,229,455 

Assets in July, 1875 15,145,313 

3. Greenwich Savings Bank. Incorporated April 12, 1833. George Suckley, 

President. 
Assets in 1840 $176,388 

Assets in 1858 3,466,340 

Assets in 1875 12,210,915 

4. Bowery Savings Bank. Incorporated May 1, 1834. James Mills, Pi^esi- 

dent. 

Assets in 1840 $505,391 

Assets in 1858 7,206,563 

Assets in 1875 29,327,109 

Notice. — Bowery Savings Bank. 

New York, Dee. 14, 1875. 
A semi-annual dividend at the rate of six per cent, per annum on all sums of 
$5 and upward, and not exceeding $2,000, and of live per cent, per annum on 
all sums over $2,000, which shall have been deposited at least three months on 
the 1st day of January next, will be allowed to the depositors, and will be pay- 
able on or after Monday, Jan. 17, 1876, in accordance with the provisions of the 
by-laws. By order of the trustees. On and after Jan. 1, 1876, the interest al- 



SAVINGS BANKS. 205 

lowed upon deposits exceeding $1,000 shall be one per cent, per annum less 
JiPtolof 'ii^k'^^'^-S^ deposits than upon deposits of $1,000 and less, and no 
interest will be paid upon any excess of $3,000 of deposits. 

r rr n i. u a , Samuel T. Brown, President 

^- -ti. Coggeshall, Secretary. 

INCREASE AND DECREASE OF SAVINGS BANKS AND 
DEPOSITS. 

According to the Annual Report of the State Superintendent of Savings 
Banks, dated March, 1875, there were 158 Savings Institutions in the State 
of New York, showing total assets amounting to $328,574,572, 

July 1, 1873 (before the panic), the deposits amounted to $293,178,030 

On Jan 1, 1874, the deposits had fallen to 285'520'085 

Withdrawn in six months 7,' 657' 945 

On .July 1, 1874, the deposits increased to 292^728 456 

Showing a return of confidence on the part of depositors.* 



BANKS FOR SAVINGS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 



Abingdon Square, 23 Abingdon sq. 
Incorporated 1869. Assets, Jan. 1, 
1875, $179,753. C. A. Schumaker, 
Pres. ; George W. Brown, Sec. 

Bank for Savings, 67 Bleecker street. 
Incorporated in 1819. Assets, $22,- 
533,823. Robert Lenox Kennedy, 
Pres. ; David Olyphant, Treas. ; Benj. 
D. K. Craig, Comptroller; Otis D. 
Swan, Sec. 

Bond Street, Bowery, cor. Bond st. 
Incorporated 1860. Assets, $2,014,- 
031.98. Harrison Hall, Pres.; Jos. 
P. Cooper, Sec. 

Bowery, i30 Bowery. Incorporated 
1834. Assets, $29,327,109. Samuel 
T Brown, Pres. ; John Gray, 1st Vice- 
Pres. ; John P. Townsend, 2d Vice- 
Pres. ; Giles H. Coggeshall, Sec. 

Broadway, 4 Park place. Incorpor- 
ated 1851. Assets, $2,282,197. F. P. 
Schoals, Pres. ; Peter Cumming, 
Actuary. 

Citizens', 58 Bowery. Incorporated 
1860. Assets, $8,350,417. Edward 
A. Quintard, Pres. ; Seymour A. 
Bunce, Sec. 



Clairmont, 247 Greenwich street. In- 
corporated 1870. Assets, $83,427. 
Sherman Broadwell, Pres. ; David E. 
Swan, Sec. 

Clinton, 244, Eighth av. Incorporated 
1868. Assets, $178,791. William W. 
Owens,Vice-Pres.; Orlando P. Smith, 
Sec. 

Dry Dock, 341 and 343 Bowery. In- 
corporated 1848. Assets, $10,046,076. 
Andrew Mills, Pres. ; Wm. V. Web- 
ster, Sec. 

East River, 3 Chambers street. Incor- 
porated 1848. Assets, $7,982,769. 
Wm. H. Slocum, Pres. ; Charles A. 
Whitney, Sec. 

East Side, for Sailors, 187 Cherry 
street. Incorporated 1871. Assets, 
$16,525. Charles C. Duncan, Pres. ; 
George F. Duncan, Cashier. 

Eleventh Ward cor. Avenue C. and 
7th St. Incorporated 1869. Assets, 
$729,159. Jas. L. Stewart, Pres.; 
John H. Timmerman, Sec. 
Emigrant Industrial, 51 Chambers 
St. Incorporated 1850. Assets, $14,- 
036,258, Henry L. Hoguet, Pres.; 
David Ledwith, Comptroller. 



* The failure of /^^;(2 Savings Banks in the City of New York, during the past few months' 
having on hand deposits to the amount of $3,768,313, again causes distrust among depositors'^ 
which, if it assumes another panic, must cause other banks to suspend, 



:206 



NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



Equitable, 170 Sixth avenue. Incor- 
porated 1869; Assets, $55,163. John 
E. DeWitt, Pres. ; George C. Waldo, 
Sec. 

Excelsior, 374, Sixth avenue. Incor- 
porated 1869. Assets, $529,924. B. F. 
Beekman, Pres. ; W. B. Jandon, Sec. 

Eranklin, 658 Eighth av. Incorpor- 
ated 1860. Assets, $1,645,609. J. F. 
Chamberlain, Pres. ; James E. Smith, 
Sec. 

German, 100 East 14th street. Incor- 
porated 1859. Assets, $12,680,477. 
Philip Bissinger, Pres. ; Theo. E. 
Buck, Sec. 

German, IVIorrisania, cor. Third av. 
and 158th street. Incorporated 1868. 
Jacob Held, Pres. ; Wm. Hoeland, 
Sec. 

■Greenwich, 73 Sixth avenue. Incor- 
porated 1833. Assets, $12,210,915. 
W. R. Vermilye, President ; Clinton 
Gilbert, Treasurer ; J. H. Rhoades, 
Secretary. 

Harlem, 2281 Third avenue. Incor- 
porated. 1863. Assets. $1,026,425. 
Thos. B. Tappen, President ; John 
S. Kenyon, Secretary. 

Institution for the Savings of 
Merchants' Clerks, 20 Union 
Place. Incorporated, 1848. Assets, 
$3,904,133. A. Gracie King, Presi- 
dent ; Joseph W. Patterson, Treas- 
urer ; Andrew Warner, Cashier and 
Secretary. 

Irving, 96 Warren street. Incor- 
porated 1851. Assets, $3,477,217. 
W. W. Conklin, President ; C. D. 
Heaton, Asst. Secretary. 

Manhattan, 644 Broadway. Incor- 
porated 1850. Assets, $9,091,916. 
E. J. Brown, President ; Edward 
Schell, Treasurer ; C. L. Alvord, 
Secretary. 

Mechanics and Traders', 283 Bow- 
ery. Incorporated 1852. Assets, 
$2,644,381. Alfred T. Conklin, Pres- 
ident ; H. C. Fisher, Secretary. 



Metropolitan, 1 Third avenue. In- 
corporated 1852. Assets, $6,962,635. 
Isaac T. Smith, President ; T. W. 
Lillie, Secretary. 

MoRRiSANiA, Third avenue, cor. 150th 
Incorporated 1868. Assets, $206,602. 
William Cauldwell, President ; E. B. 
Fellows, Secretary. 

New Amsterdam, 215 Bowery. In- 
corporated 1869. Assets, $781,^20. 
Theo. Frohwein, President ; John 
Guth, Treasurer. 

New York, West 14th sfreet, cor. 
Eighth avenue. Incorporated 1854. 
Assets, $3,255,855. Richard II. Bull, 
President ; C. W. Brinckerhoff, Sec- 
retary. 

North River, Eighth avenue, cor. 
West 34th street. Incorporated 1866. 
Assets, $883,868. John Hooper, Pres- 
ident ; James O. Bennett, Secretary. 

Oriental, 430 Grand street. Incor- 
porated 1869. Assets, $369,251. Wil- 
liam P. Buckmaster, President ; E. 
R. Kennedy, Secretary. 

Seaman's, 74 and 76 Wall street. 
Incorporated 1829. Assets, July, 1875, 
$15,145,312. Wm. Henry Macy, 
President ; H. P. Marshall, Cashier ; 
S. F. Jenkins, Treasurer. 

Security,! Third Avenue, cor. 34th 
street. Incorporated 1868. Assets, 
$660,630. D. D. T. Marshall, Presi- 
dent ; William M. Banks, Secretary. 

Sixpenny, Broadway and Astor Place, 
Incorporated 1853. Assets, $2,676, 
485. William Miles, President ; 
A. C. Collins, Secretary ; Ed. G. 
Maturin, Asst. Secretary. 

Teutonic, No. 25 Avenue A. Incor- 
porated 1868. Assets, $2,053,219. J. 
Scheuermann, President ; Michael 
Hahn, Secretary. 

Trades, 275 West 23d street. Incor- 
porated 1870. Assets, $106,584. Al- 
exander M. Lesley, President ; J. M. 
Freese, Secretary. 



LOAN, TKUST AND SAFE DEPOSIT COMPANIES. 



207 



Union Dime, 396 Canal street. Incor- 
porated 1859. Assets, $11,085,997. 
IST. J. Haines, President ; T, S. Arm- 
our, Secretary. 

West Side, 154 Sixth avenue. Incor- 
porated 1868. Assets, $344,600. Fred- 



erick A. Conkling, President ; John 
H. Hudson, Secretary. 
Yorkville, Third avenue, cor. E. 86th 
street. Incorporated 1869. Assets, 
$42,753. L. R. Kerr, President; 
John Gillelan. Secretarv. 



Note.— The Total Resources, or Assets, of the Forty-two Savings Banks in the City of New 
Tork, January 1, 1875, was $195,335,164. Since the above date Jive Savings Banks have failed. 



LOAN AND TRUST COMPANIES. 



Bankers and Brokers', 16 Broad 
street— (Clearing House for Stocks). 
Capital, $500,000. John Bonner, 
President. 

Equitable Trust, 52 William street. 

Organized . Capital, $1,000,000. 

Jonathan Edwards, President. 

Farmers' Loan and Trust, 26 Ex- 

- change place. Chartered 1822. Cap- 
ital, $1,000,000. R. G. Rolston, 
President; G. F. Talman, Vice-Pres- 
ident ; George P. Fitch, Secretary. 

National Trust, 261 Broadway. 
Chartered 1867. Capital, $1,000,000. 
D. R. Mangam, President; T. W. 
Shannon, 1st Vice-President; Benja- 
min F. Bancroft, 2d Vice-President ; 
John C. Cruikshank, Secretary. 

New York Life Insurance and 
Trust, 52 Wall street. Chartered 



1830. Capital, $1,000,000. Henry 
Parish, President ; Jos. R. Kearney, 
Secretary. 

Central, 14 Nassau street. Organ- 
ized September, 1875. Capital, $1,- 
000,000. Henry F. Spaulding, Pres- 
ident; Benj. B. Sherman and Fred. 
H. Cossett, Vice-Presidents; C. H. 
Babcock, Secretary. 

Real Estate Trust, 17 Nassau street. 
Chartered 1871. Capital $1,000,000. 
V. K. Stevenson, President ; Wm. 
L. Ely, Secretary. 

Union, 73 Broadway. Chartered 1864. 
Capital, 1,000,000. Edward King, 
President ; J. H. Ogilvie, Secretary. 

United States, 49 Wall. Chartered 
1853. Capital, $2,000,000. John A. 
Stewart, President ; William Dar- 
row. Secretary. 



SAFE DEPOSIT COMPANIES. 



Safe Deposit Company of New 
York, 140, 142 and 146 Broadway. 
Chartered 1861. Francis H. Jenks, 
President ; A. D. Hope. Vice-Presi- 
dent, Frederick Foster, Secretary. 

The Central Safe Deposit Co. of 
the City of New York, for the 
Safe Keeping of Valuables and the 
Renting of Safes in Burglar-Proof 
Vaults, 71 and 73 West Twenty-third 
street. (Masonic Temple Building.) 
Ellwood E. Thorne, President ; Darius 
R. Mangam, Vice-President ; John P. 
Roberts, Secretary and Treasurer ; 
Wilham A. Frazer, Superintendent. 



Safe Deposit Vault of the Na 
tional Park Bank, 214 and 216 
Broadway. 

Stuyvesant Safe Deposit Company, 
Third avenue, cor. Seventh street. 

The Safe DEPosrT Vaults of the 
Mercantile Trust Company, in 
the Fire-Proof Equitable Building, 
122 and 124 Broadway, cor. Cedar 
street, afford total avoidance of risk 
to person or property. Wm. H. Miller, 
President; George W. Phillips, Secre- 
tary. 



208 



NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



MONEY VALUES. 

In the following Table only the more important monetary standards are 
given, the minor sub-divisions being omitted. For each unit four values are 
given. First, its value in American currency (United States), vv^hich, expressed 
in dollars, represents also its value in dollars of Canada and Liberia, and the 
pesos of South America. Second, its value in French francs, to which are 
equivalent to the francs of Belgium and Switzerland, pesetos of Spain, lire of 
Italy, and drachmes of Greece. Third, its value in German marks. Fourth, 
its value in English sterling : 



Monet. 



Locality. 



DOLLAKS. 


Francs. 


Marks. 


1.0000 


5.1813 


4.1450 


1.0400 


5.3885 


4.3108 


1.0000 


5.1813 


4.1450 


1.0000 


5.1813 


4.1450 


0.1930 


1.0000 


0.8000 


0.5049 


2.6160 


2.0928 
0.8000 


0.1930 


1.0000 


0.1930 


1.0000 


0.8000 


0.1930 


1.0000 


0.8000 


0.1046 


0.5419 


0.4335 


0.4084 


2.1161 


1.6929 


0.4803 


2.4886 


1.9909 


0.4117 


2.1332 


1.7066 


C.6462 


34.4363 


27.6917 


0.2680 


1.3886 


1.1109 


0.1930 


1.0000 


0.8000 


0.1930 


1.0000 


0.8000 


0.2401 


1.2500 


1.0000 


0.3642 


1.8922 


1.5138 


0.5456 


2.8269 


2.2615 


1.0847 


5.6202 


4.4962 


7.1050 


36.8135 


29,4508 


0.9498 


4.9212 


3.9370 


0.1930 


1.0000 


0.8000 


1.0000 


5.1813 


4.1450 


0.9650 


5.0000 


4.0000 


0.9650 


5.0000 


4.0000 


0.9650 


5.0000 


4.0000 



Sterling. 
£ s. d. 



Dollar 



see Peso... 



Drachme 

Escudo 

Florin, see Guilder 
Franc 



Gersh 

Guilder, or Florin 
Gulden, " 
Gulden, 

Krone, Vereins. . 
" or Crown. 

Lei, or Piastre 

Lira 

Mark 

Mark-Banco 

Milreis 



Canada 

Hong-Kong 

Liberia 

Mexico & S. Amer. 

United States* 

Greece 

Spain 

Netherlands 

Belgium 

France 

Switzerland 

Tripoli 

Netherlands 

Austria 

Germany 



4 li 

4 ^ 

4 U 



9i 
2 1 



1 8i 
1 llf 

1 8^ 



Mohur (15 Rupees) 

Patacon 

Peseta 

Peso, or Dollar. _ 



Norway & Sweden. 

Roumania 

Italy 

Germany 

Hamburg 

Brazil 

Portugal 

India... 

Uruguay 

Spain 

Argentine Confed. . 
Central America. . . 

Chili 

Colombia 



1 7 
1 



4i 

9i 



1 6 

2 2f 
4 5i 

1 9 2i 

3 11 

4 n 

3 llf 
3 11# 



* American Monet Values.— We have now in the United States/owr different legal dollars : 
One a tender absolutely, two partially, and one no legal tender at all. They are the gold dollar 
of 25 8-10 grains, the silver dollar of 384 grains, coined in halves ; the tirade dollar of 420 grains 
(silver), and the greenback, which has no fixed value— ranging during the past year from 85 to 90 
cents in gold. 



MONEY VALUES. 



209 



Monet. 


LOALITY. 


Dollars. 


Fbancs. 


Marks. 


1 
Sterling. 
£ s. d. 


Peso, or Dollar _ . 


Ecuador 


0.9650 
1.0567 
1.0000 
0.7836 
0.0495 
0.8337 
0.0482 
0.1286 
4.8666 
0.5463 
1.0212 
1.0929 
1.1023 
1.7779 
0.4622 
0.2433 
0.9650 
1.0926 
1.9102 
1.6100 
1.0039 
0.7204 
0.7912 
0.7204 
2.7155 
2.2437 
1.0400 


5.0000 
5.4751 
5.1813 
4.0601 
0.2565 
4.3197 
0.2238 
0.6663 
25.2158 
2.8306 
5.2912 
5.6627 
5.7114 
4.0306 
2.3948 
1.2606 
5.0000 
5.6611 
9.8974 
8.3419 
5.2015 
3.7500 
4.0995 
3.7500 
14.0700 
11.6254 
5.3885 


4.0000 
4.3801 
4.1450 
3.2481 
0.2052 
3.4558 
0.1790 
0.5330 
20.1726 
2.2645 
4.2329 
5.6626 


3 115- 




Mexico . - _ 


4 44 


tt il 


Paraguay 


4 1 1 


Piastre 


Venezuela 

Egypt . 


3 24 
3 5 


<< 


Mocha 


<( 


Turkey 


11 


Tunis - - 


Pound Sterling-. 

Rigsdaler 

Rijksdaaler 

Riksdaler 


Great Britain 

Denmark 

Netherlands 

Norway 


20 O" 
2 3 
4 ^ 
4 6 


" Silver 


Sweden 


4 6^ 


Ruble, or Rouble - 


Russia. 


3.2645 
1.9160 
1.0085 
4.0000 
4.5289 
7.9179 
6.6735 
4.1612 
3.0000 
4.0796 
3.0000 
11.2560 
9.3068 
4.3108 


3 2^ 


Rupee 


India 


1 lOf 
1 


Shilling 


Great Britain 

Peru 


Sol 


3 lit 


Specie Daler 

Star Pagoda 

Tael 


Denmark 


4 6 


Madras . 


7 104 


China 


6 8 


Tallari, or Dollar 


Effvpt 


4 li 

2 li 

3 3 


Thaler, Vereins.. 


Austria 


** Old Rix 


Bremen 


" Vereins. _ 


Germany . . 


2 Hi 
11 li 


Tilla 


Turkestan 

Persia 


Tomaun 


9 m 


Yen 


.Tnnan 


4 3i 







UNITED STATES MONEY STANDARD. 

10 Mills make 1 Cent. I 10 Dimes make 1 Dollar. 

10 Cents " 1 Dime. | 10 Dollars " 1 Eagle. 

In the West and South 12^ cents make a bit. In New York this sum is called 
a shilling. The shilling of the New England States is 16f cents. These values, 
however, are not legal. 

Single Gold Coins. 

Name of Coins. Standard. Least Current Weight. Value. 

Double Eagle 516.0 grains. 513.42 grains. S20. 

Eaele 258.0 " 256.71 " 10. 

Half Eagle 129.0 " 128.36 " 5. 

Quarter Eagle 64.5 •' 64.18 " 2.50 

Three Dollars 77.4 " 77.02 " 3. 

Dollar 25.8 " 25.05 " 1. 



210 



NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



LEGAL RATES OF INTEREST. 



STATES, ETC. RATE. 

Alabama 8 per cent. 

Arkansas 6 " " 

Arizona Ter 10 " 

Oalifornia 10 " 

UoloradoTer 10 " '' 

Connecticut 7 " 

Dakota Ter 7 " " 

Delaware 6 " 

District of Columbia* _ _ . 6 " 

Florida 8 " " 

Georgia* 7 " 

Illinois* 6 " 

Indiana* 6 " 

Iowa* 6 " " 

Kansasf 7 " 

Kentucky* 6 " " 

Louisiana^: 5 " " 

Maine 6 " " 

Maryland 6 " " 

Massachusetts 6 " " 

Michigan* 7 " " 

Minnesotaf 7 " 

Mississippi* 6 " " 

A contract to pay 10 per cent, ia valid. 



STATES, ETC. RATE. 

Missouri* __ 6 per cent. 

Montana Ter 10 " 

Nebraska 10 " 

Nevada 10 " 

New Hampshire ._ ._6 " 

New Jersey ___ 7 " 

New York 7 " 

North Carolina:): 6 " 

Ohiot -- --- 6 " 

Oregon 10 " 

Pennsylvania _ 6 " 

Rhode Island 6 " 

South Carolina .- _ 7 " 

Tennessee* 6 " 

Texas 8 " 

Utah Ter.* 7 " 

Vermont 6 " 

Virginiaf 6 " 

West Virginia 6 '* 

Washington Ter 10 " 

Wisconsin* 7 '' 

Wyoming Ter.§ 12 " 

X A contract to pay 8 per cent, is valid. 
§ Any rate agreed upon is lawful. 



t " " 12 per cent. 

Note.— The legal Rate of Interest in the United States may be said to range from 6 to 12 per 
cent., whUe in England it usually ranges from 3 to 6 per cent. ; average, A]^ per cent. The high 
rate of interest in the United States, no doubt, in part causes our present financial troubles. 
Mmey Values and Interest should be the same, or nearly the same, in all commercial nations. 



BILLS OF EXCHANGE. 

By the term Exchange is meant the manner in which accounts are adjusted 
when the debtor or creditor reside in different localities or countries, and where 
the coin or money is not actually used. 

The rule by which we find the amount of money to be placed to one's credit 
in one place in return for a given amount in another is also called Exchange. 

Bills of Exchange are notes representing a certain sum of money purchased 
by those who wish to cover an indebtedness from those who are in possession of 
funds in the place where the former is a debtor. 

If a merchant wishes to pay for commodities purchased in London or Paris, 
without actually sending over the coin, he purchases a "Bill of Exchange" 
at the "rate of the day," the price of bills fluctuating according to the supply 
and demand, in the same manner as an article of commerce or of merchandise. 



FIEE INSURANCE COMPANIES. 



211 



RISE AND GROWTH OF FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE 

COMPANIES. 

The past one hundred years has given rise to Fire and Marine Insurance Com- 
panies in the United States. The first on record and which still exists is the 
Philadelphia Contributionship^, instituted in 1753 ; the Mutual Assurance Com- 
pany of Philadelphia, instituted in 1784 ; the Mutual Assurance Company of 
New York, organized in 1787 ; Insurance Company of North America, (Pliila- 
delphia,) fire and marine, incorporated in 1794 ; New York (Mairine) Insurance 
Company, incorporated in 1798 ; Washington Insurance Company, (New York,) 
instituted in 1801 ; Commercial (Marine) Insurance Company, 1805 ; Eagle Fire 
Company, incorporated in 1806 ; Ocean Marine Insurance Company, incorpo- 
rated in 1810 ; American (Marine) Insurance Company, incorporated in 1815 ; 
Union (Marine and Life,) incorporated in 1818 ; Pacific (Marine) Insurance 
Company, 1818. 

The above twelve insurance companies were organized in New York and Phila- 
delphia, prior to 1820 ; after that period the growth of Fire and Marine Com- 
panies was very rapid. In 1833 there were 26 Fire Insurance Companies and 10 
Marine Insurance Companies organized in the City of New York. 

In 1840 the Fire Insurance Companies had increased to 32, with a gross capital 
of $11,260,000. and 12 Marine Companies with a capital of $4,100,000. Now, 
(1875,) the 94 Fire Insurance Companies connected with New York Board of 
Fire Underwriters have a capital of $85,000,000, and the 10 Marine Insurance 
Companies a capital of about $25,000,000. 

NEW YORK BOARD OF FIRE UNDERWRITERS. 

Chartered May 9, 1867.— Nos. 156 and 158 Broadway, N. Y. 
OFFICERS : 
Edgar W. Crowell, President. William W. Henshaw, Secretary. 
Daniel A. Heald, Vice-President. Marcus F. Hodges, Treasurer. 
The one hundred and ninety-four Mre Insurance Companies connected with the 
Board of Underwriters, and doing business in the City of New York, exclusive 
of the Foreign Companies, according to the last Reports, dated January, 1875, 
had a total capital of about $85,000,000. 



FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES. 



Adriatic, 187 Broadway. Organized 
in 1858. Capital, $200,000. Wm. A. 
Seaver, President; N. G. Rogers, Sec. 

Aetna, 172 Broadway. Organized in 
1871. Capital, $200,000. Fred. A. 
CoNKLLNG, President; Bradley Mar- 
tin, Vice-President; O. S. Bogert, 
Secretary. 



Aetna, (Hartford), 173 Broadway. 
Organized, 1819. Capital, $3,000,000. 
Jas. a. Alexander, Agent. 

American, 120 Broadway. Organized 
in 1857. Capital, $400,000. James M. 
Halsted, Pres,; T. L. Thornell.^cc. 

American Exchange, 61 Liberty St. 
Organized, 1859. Capital, $200,000. 



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NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



Henry Butler, President; "Wm. Ray- 
NOR, Secretary. 

Amity, 345 Broadway. Organized in 
1873. Capital, $200,000. Edward 
Merritt, Pi'eakUnt; Nathan Harper, 
Secretary. 

Arctic, 104 Broadway. Organized, 
1853. Capital, $200,000. Vincent 
Til YOU, President; Charles Ham- 
burgh, Secretary. 

Atlantic, Atlantic Ave., cor. Clinton 
St., Brooklyn. Organized, 1871. Capital, 
$200,000. John D. Cocks, President; 
Wm. D. Cornell, Secretary. New 
York Office, 178 Broadway. 

Brewers and Maltsters, 139 B'way. 

Organized, 1871. Capital, $200,000. 
Charles W. Standart, President; 
Wm. B. Ogden, Secretary. 

Broadway, 158 Broadway. Organ- 
ized, 1849. Capital, $200,000. H. M. 
Forrester, President; John Wray, 
Secretary. 

Bowery, (New York,) 124 Bowery 
and 8 Pine St. Incorporated in 1833. 
George G. Taylor, President ;Y^iiaaam 
L. Cortelyou, Vice-President; John 
A. Delaway, Seeretary. 

Brooklyn, 32 Court St. Organized, 
1824. Capital, $153,000. Tunis C. 
Bergen, PresideTU ; Geo. K. Brand, 
Secretary. New York Office, 191 Broad- 
way. 

Citizens, 156 Broadway, Incorpora- 
ted in 1836. Capital, $300,000. Jas. 
M. M'Lean, President; Edward A. 
Walton Secretary. 

City, 111 Broadway. Organized in 
1833 Capital, $210,000. S. Townsend, 
President ; D. J. Blauvelt, Secretary. 

Clinton, 156 Broadway. Organized, 
1850. Capital, $250,000. James B. 
Ames, President; G. T. Patterson, jr., 
Secretary. 

Columbia, 161 Broadway. Organ- 
ized, 1853. Capital, $300,000. Alfred 
Douglass, President; Jno. B. Arthur, 

Secretary. 



Commerce, 104 Broadway. Organ- 
ized, 1859. Capital, $200,000. Dun- 
can McDouGAL, President; Wm. E. 
HoxiE, Secretary. 

Commercial, 157 Broadway. Organ- 
ized, 1850. Capital, $200,000. M. V. 
B. Fowler, President ; David Quack- 
enbush, Secretary. 

Continental, 102 Broadway and cor- 
ner Court and Montague sts., Brooklyn. 
Organized, 1853. Capital, $1,000,000. 
George T. Hope, President; Cyrus 
Peck, Secretary; H. H. Lamport, 
Vice-President. 

Eagle, 71 Wall St. Organized, 1806. 
Assets, $900,105. Sanford Cobb, 
President; A. J. Clinton, Secretary; 
T. J. Gaines, Assistant Secretary. 

Empire City, 102 Broadway. Or- 
ganized, 1850. Capital, $200,000. Wm. 
A. BuRTis, President; Lindley Mur- 
ray, jr., Secretary. 

Emporium, 237 Broadway. Organ- 
ized, 1873. Capital, $200,000. George 
Alger, President ; Henry B. Mead^ 
Secretary. 

Equitable, (New York) 58 Wall st. 
Capital, $210,000. Richard J. Thorne, 
President ; John Miller, Secretary. 

Exchange, 172 Broadway. Organ- 
ized, 1853. Capital, $200,000. Rich- 
ard C. Combes, President; Geo. W. 
Montgomery, Secretary. 

Farragut, 346 Broadway. Organ- 
ized, 1872. Capital, $200,000. John 
M. FuRMAN, President; Samuel Dar- 
bee, Secretary. 

Firemen's, 153 Broadway. Organ 
ized, 1825. Capital, $204,000. John B. 
Halsted, President; Thad. J. Whit- 
lock, Secretary. 

Firemen's Fund, 167 Broadway. 
Organized, 1858. Capital, $150,000. 
Jas. D. Sparkman, President; W. R. 
Wadsworth, Secretary. 

Firemen's Trust. Organized, 1859. 
Capital, $150,000. D wight Johnson, 
President; Oliver D. Milderberger, 
Secretary. New York Office, 204 B'way. 



FIBE INSURANCE COMPANIES. 



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Gebhard, 141 Broadway. Organized, 
1857. Capital, $200,000. W. D. Wad- 
DiNGTON, President; John R. Smith, 

Secretary. 

German American, 179 Broadway. 

Organized, 1872. Capital, $1,000,000. 
E. Oelbekmann, President; Jas. A. 
SiLVEY, Secretary. 

Germania, 175 Broadway. Organ- 
ized, 1859. Capital, $500,000. Ru- 
dolph Garrigue, President; John Ed- 
ward Kahl, Vice-President; Hugo 
SiiUMANN, Secretary. 

Globe, 176 Broadway. Organized, 
1863. Capital, $200,000. Leonard 
KiRBY, President; Alfred A. Reeves, 



Greenwich, 155 Broadway. Incor- 
porated, 1834. Capital, $200,000. Sam- 
uel C. Harriott, President; Mason A. 
Stone, Secretary. 

Guaranty, 120 Broadway. Organ- 
ized, 1875. Capital, $200,000. Wm. 
H. Bridgman, President; Wm. Mulli- 
gan, Vice-President; C. D. Harts- 
horn, Secretary. 

Guardian, 187 Broadway. Organ- 
ized, 1865. Capital, $200,000. Wm. 
C. Thompson, President; Walter R. 
Page, Secretary. 

Guardian Assurance, (London), 60 
Wall Street. 

Hamburg- Bremen, (United States 
Branch), 178 Broadway. Capital, $1,- 
819,000 in Gold. S. V. Dorrien, Mana- 
ger. 

Hamilton, 11 Wall Street. Organ- 
ized, 1852. Capital, $150,000. D. D. 
Whitney, President; D. D. Leeds, 
Secretary. 

Hanover, 120 Broadway. Organized, 
1852. Capital, $500,000. Benj. S. 
Walcott, President; I. Remsen Lane, 
Secretary. 

Hoffman, 130 Broadway. Organized, 
1864. Capital, $200,000. M. F. Hodges, 
President; John D. McIntyre, Secre- 
tary. 



Home, 135 Broadway. Organized, 
1853. Capital, $3,000,000. Charles 
J. Martin, President; A. F. Will- 
MARTH, \st Vice-President; John D. A. 
Heald, 2d Vice President; H. Wash- 
burn, Secretary. 

Hope, 169 Broadway. Organized, 
1856. Capital, $150,000. John W. 
Mersereau, President; Isaac D. Cole, 
Vice-President; Louis T. Bayard, Sec- 



Howard, 66 Wall Street. Incorpo- 
rated, 1825. Capital, $500,000. Sam- 
uel T. Skidmore, President; Henry 
A. Oakley, Vice-President; Theodore 
Keeler, Secretary. 

Importers and Traders, 192 Broad- 
way. Organized, 1859. Capital, $200,- 
000. Jacob Brokaw, President ; Dan- 
iel A. Smith, Secretary. 

Irving, 157 Broadway. Organized, 
1872. Capital, $200,000. Martin L. 
Crowell, President; James M. Wil- 
son, Secretary. 

Jefferson, 111 Broadway. Incorpo- 
rated, 1824. Capital, $200,000. S. E. 
Belcher, President; Wm. B. Flowery, 

Secretary. 

Knickerbocker, 64 Wall St. Organ- 
ized, 1787, as the Mutual Assurance 
Co. Reorganized to Knickerbocker 

Fire in 1846. Capital, $280,000. 

, President; Jos. L. Townsend, 



Secretary. 

Kings County. Organized, 1858. 
Capital, $150,000. Surplus, $250,000. 
Edward T. Backhouse, President; 
Henry Pope, Secretary. New York 
Office, 59 Liberty St. 

Lafayette. Organized, 1856. Capital, 
$150,000. Hubert Giroux, President; 
Geo. W. Hunt, Secretary. New York 
Office, 165 Broadway. 

Lamar, 184 Broadway. Organized, 
1872. Capital, $200,000. Isaac R. 
St. John, President; Wm. R. Macdiar- 
MiD, Secretary. 



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NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



Lancashire, (England), 184 Broad- 
way. Capital, $10,000,000. Henry 
Robertson, Manager. 

Lenox, 158 Broadway. Organized, 
1853. Capital, $150,000. George A. 
Jarvis, President ; Arthur H. Wal- 
ton, Secretary. 

Liverpool and London and Globe 
Insurance Company, 45 William St. 
James E. Pdlsford, Resident Secretary. 

London Assurance, (London), estab- 
lished in 1720. 88 Wall street. Assets, 
$14,000,000. Frame, Hare & Lock- 
wood, Managers, United States Branch. 

Lorrillard, 152 Broadway. Organ- 
ized, 1871. Capital, $300,000. Car- 
lisle Norwood, President; John C. 
Mills, Secretary. 

Long Island. Incorporated in 1833. 
Reorganized in 1863. Capital, $200,000. 
B. W. Delamater, President; Wm. 
W. Henshaw, Secretary. New York 
Office, 120 Broadway. 

Manhattan, 68 Wall street. First 
incorporated, March 18, 1821. Reorgan- 
ized, 1872. Capital, $250,000. Andrew 
J. Smith, President. 

Manufacturers' and Builders', 207 
Broadway. Organized, 1870. Capital, 
$200,000. E. V. Lowe, President; 
J. Jay Nestell, Secretary. 

Mechanics', 217 Montague street. 
Organized, 1857. Capital, $150,000. 
John A. Baker, President; Daniel 
Chauncey, Jr., President; Walter 
Nichols, Secretary. New York Office, 
165 Broadway. 

Mechanics' and Traders', 48 Wall St. 
Organized, 1853. Capital, $200,000. 
James R. Lett, President; John M. 
Tompkins, Secretary. 

Mercantile, 166 Broad wa v. Organ- 
ized, 1852. Capital, $200,000. Wm. 

A. Anderson, President ; C. W. Par- 
melee, Secretary. 

Merchants', 149 Broadway. Organ- 
ized, 1850. Capital, $200,000. C. V. 

B. OsTRANDER, President; John L. 
DouoT.ARS, Secretary. 



Metropolitan, 108 Broadway. Or- 
ganized, 1854. Capital, $300,000. 
Robert M. C. Graham, President: 
Saaiuel J. Young, Secretary. 

Montauk, 22 Court street. Organ- 
ized, 1857. Capital, $200,000. Wm. 
Ellsworth, President ; Geo. G. Trask, 
Secretary. New York Office, 120 Broad- 
way. 

Nassau, 30 Court street. Capital, 
$200,000. Thos. B. Jones, Pr^^w^Ti^/. 
Wm. T. Lane, Secreta/ry. New York 
Office, 167 Broadway. 

National, 52 Wall street. Incorpo- 
rated, 1838. Capital, $200,000. Hen- 
ry T. Drowne, President ; Henry H. 
Hall, Secretary. 

New York, 72 Wall street. Incor- 
porated, 1832. Capital, $200,000. 
Daniel Underhill, President; Au- 
gustus CoLSON, Secretary. 

New York Produce, 112 Broadway. 
Organized, 1874. Capital, $200,000. 
Warren Harriot, Pi^esident ; S. W. 
Wendover, Secretary. 

New York and Yonkers, 100 Broad- 
way. Organized, 1872. Capital, $200,- 
000. R. L. Franklin, President ; John 
W. SiMONSON, Secretary. 

Niagara, 201 Broadway. Organized,. 

1850. Capital, $500,000. Henry A. 
Howe, President; Peter Notman,. 
Secretary. 

North River, 202 Greenwich street. 
Incorporated, 1822. Capital, $350,000. 
Peter R.Warner, President; Albert 
BoGERT, Jr., Secretary. 

Pacific, 470 Broadway. Organized, 

1851. Capital, $200,000. Thos. F. 
Jeremiah, President; Wm. A. Butler, 
Secretary. 

Park, 170 Broadway. Incorporated, 
1853. Capital, $200,000. William 
^KYY-RKY, President ; William Valen- 
tine, Secretary. 

People's, 393 Canal street. Organ- 
ized, 1851. Capital, $150,000. F. V. 
Fine, President; A. C. Milne, Secre- 
tary. 



FIEE INSURANCE COMPANIES. 



215 



Peter Cooper, Third avenue, cornor 
East Ninth street. Organized, 1853. 
Assets, $400,000. Natiian C. Ely, 
President; Wm. H. Reblet, Secretary. 

Phoenix, 12 and 14 Court street. 
Organized, 1853. Capital, $1,000,000 ; 
surplus, $1,333,492. Stephen Crow- 
ell, President; Philander Shaw, 
Vice-President; Wm. R. Crowell, 
Secretary. New York Office, 193 Broad- 
way. 

Queen, (Liverpool,) 216 Broadway. 
Capital, £2,000,000. William H. Ross, 
Manager. Assets in United States, 
$1,264,965. 

Relief, 149 Broadway. Organized, 
1855. Capital, $200,000. Jas. A. 
PiNCKNEY, President ; Wm. E. Crary, 
Secretary. 

Republic, 153 Broadway. Organized, 
1852. Capital, $300,000. Robert S. 
Hone, President; Duncan F. Curry, 
Secretary ; Edward Rcwell, Assistant 
Secretary. 

Resolute, 151 Broadway. Organized, 
1857. Capital, $200,000. John Gihon, 
President; Wm. M. Randell, Secretary. 

Ridgewood, 26 Court street, Brook- 
lyn. Organized, 1873. Capital, $200,- 
000. Wm. K. Lathrop, President; 
Wm. a. Scott, Secretary. New York 
Office, 170 Broadway. 

Royal Canadian, (Montreal, Can.,) 
54 William street. 

Royal, (Liverpool and London,) 56 
Wall street. Assets, $17,000,000. A. 
B. McDonald and E. F. Beddall, 
Agents. (See adv.) 

Rutgers, 180 Chatham street. Or- 
ganized, 1853. Capital, $200,000. Ed. 
B. Fellows, President; Jos. W. Dua- 
Liss, Secretary. 



Safeguard, 152 Broadway. Organ- 
ized, 1872. Capital, $200,000. Thos. 
C. DoREMUs, President; James Yer- 
EANCE, Secretary. 

St. Nicholas, 166 Broadway. Organ- 
ized, 1852. Capital, $150,000. Wm. 
WmsLow, President; J. Dubois, Sec- 
retary. 

Standard, 117 Broadway. Organ- 
ized, 1859. Capital, $200,000. Wm. 
Cripps, President; Wm. M. St. John, 



Star, 161 Broadway. Organized, 1864. 
Capital, $200,000. Nicholas C. Mil- 
ler, President; Jas. M. Hodges, Sec- 
retary. 

Sterling, 155 Broadway. Organized, 
1864. Capital, $200,000. Andrew L. 
SouLARD, President ; J. K. Van Rens- 
selaer, Secretary. 

Stuyvesant, 200 Broadway. Organ- 
ized, 1851. Capital, $200, 000. Samuel 
F. Patterson, President ; George B. 
Rhoades, Secretary. 

Tradesmen's, 168 Broadway. Organ- 
ized, 1858. Capital, $1500,000. David 
B. Keeler, President; T. Y. Brown, 
Secretary. 

United States, 106 Broadway. Or- 
ganized, 1824. Capital, $250,000. A. 
S. Underhill, President; W. W. Un- 
DERHTLL, Secretary. 

Westchester, 114 Broadway. Or- 
ganized, 1870. Capital, $200,000. Geo. 
J. Penfield, President; Geo. S. 
Crawford, Secretary. 

Williamsburgh City, (Brooklyn), 208 
and 210 Broadway. Organized, 1853. 
Capital, $250,000. Edmond Driggs 
President; N. W. Meserole, Secretary 



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NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



MARINE INSURANCE COMPANIES. 



mSURE AGAINST MARINE AND INLAND NAVIGATION RISKS. 



Atlantic Mutual, 51 Wall street. 
(Chartered in 1824 as a stock company.) 
Incorporated, 1842. Assets, $16,003,- 
584. John D. Jones, President; Charles 
Dennis, Vice-President; W. H. H. 
Moore, 2d Vice-President; A. A. Raven, 
M Vice-President; Joseph H. Chapman, 
Secretary. 

Commercial Mutual, 57 and 59 Wil- 
liam street. Incorporated, 1843. As- 
sets, $1,189,040. Daniel Drake Smith, 
President; W. I. Comes, Vice-Presi- 
dent; Henry D. Bang, Secretary. 

Great Western, 50 Wall street. Or- 
ganized, 1855. Assets, $1,098,009. 
Ferdinand Motz, P)'esident ; Alex. 
Mackay, Vice-President; Wm. T. Lock- 
wood, Secretary. 

Mercantile Mutual, 35 Wall street. 
Incorporated, 1842. Assets, $981,607. 
Ellwood Walter, President; A. G. 
Montgomery, jr., Vice-President ; A. W. 
Hegeman, 2d Vice-President ; C. J. Des- 
pard. Secretary. 

New York Mutual, 61 William 
street. First incorporated in 1798 as a 
stock company. Incorporated, 1842. 
Assets, $847, 176. John H. Lyell, Presi- 
dent; T. B. Bleecker, Jr., Vice-Presi- 
dent; Edward Laroque, 



Orient Mutual, 43 Wall street. Or- 
ganized, 1854. Assets, $1,947,372. 
Eugene Dutilh, President ; Alfred Og- 
den, Vice-President; Charles Irving, 
Secretary. 

United States "Lloyds," 50 Wall 
street. Higgins & Cox, Attorneys for 
the subscribers. 

Pacific Mutual, 119 Broadway. Or- 
ganized, 1835. Assets, $1,017,143. John 
K. Meyers, President; Thomas Hale, 



Vice-President; Willoughby Powell, 
Secretary. 

Sun Mutual, 37 Wall street. (Marine 
and Fire.) Incorporated, 1841. Assets 
$775, 138. John P. Paulison, President; 
Isaac H. Walker, Vice-President; John 
P. Nichols, Secreta/ry. 

Union Mutual, 63 William street. 
(Marine and Fire.) Incorporated, 1845. 
Assets, $1,176,711. F. S. Lathrop, 
President; Ferdinand Stagg, Vice-Presi- 
dent; P. F. MacDonald, Secretary. 



Board of Marine Underwriters — 

Office, 51 Wall St. Organized in 1832. 
Officers: Charles M'Evers, President; 
William Neilson, Vice-President; Joseph 
Fowler, Secretary. 

1876. 

The following Companies now con- 
stitute the Board of Marine Under- 
writers ; 

The Atlantic Mutual Insurance 
Company. 

The Sun Mutual Insurance Com- 
pany. 

The Mercantile Mutual Insur- 
ance Company. 

The Orient Mutual Insurance 
Company. 

The Pacific Mutual Insurance 
Company. 

The Commercial Mutual Insur- 
ance Company. 

The New York Mutual Insurance 
Company. 

The Union Mutual Insurance 
Company. 

Francis S. Lathrop, President. 

Daniel D. Smith, Vice-Pres. 

Elwood Walter, Secretary. 

W. H. H. Moore, Treasurer. 

G. S. Stagg, Clerk of the Board. 



LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES. 



217 



CHAMBER OF LIFE INSURANCE. 

Office in Bennett Building, 99 Nassau St. Organized in 1873. 
OFFICERS FOR 1875—76. 
Jacob L. Gkeene, Hartford, President. 
Samuel C. Huey, Philadelphia, Vice-President. 
Chablton T. Lewis, New York, Sec. and Treasurer. 
This Association is composed of 27 Life Insurance Companies, representing 
an immense amount of assets. 



LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 



American Popular, 419 and 421 

Broadway. Organized May, 1866. As- 
sets, $686,172. T. S. Lambert, M. D,. 
Pres.; Moreau Morris, M. D., Vice- 
Pres. ; Jas. Cruikshank, Secretary. 

Brooklyn, 320 Broadway. Organ- 
ized July, 1864. Assets, $2,244,841. 
Christian W Bouck, Pres. ; Wm. H. 
Wallace, Vice-Pres. ; "Wm. M. Cole, 
Secretary. 

Connecticut Mutual,(Hartford). Or- 
ganized 1846. James Goodwin, Pres.; 
Jacob L. Green, Secretary. Assets, 
$41,000,000. Dunham & Sherman, 
Oen. Agents, 194 Broadway. 

Continental, 26 Nassau St. Organ- 
ized May, 1866. Assets, $6,473,158. 
L. W Frost, Pres. ; M. B. Wynkoop, 
Vice-Pres.; J. P. Rogers, Secretary. 

Equitable, 120 Broadway. Organ- 
ized July, 1869. Assets, $25,606,847. 
Henry B. Hyde, Pres.; J. W. Alex- 
ander, Vice-Pres.; Samuel Burrows, 
Secretary. 

Germania, 293 Broadway. Organ- 
ized April, 1860. Assets, $6,640,004. 
Hugo Wesendonck, Pres.; Cornelius 
DoREMUS, Secretary. 

Globe Mutual, 345 Broadway. Or- 
ganized June, 1864. Assets, $4,093,131. 
Pliny Freeman, Pres.; Jas. M. Free- 
man, Secretary. 

Home, 254 Broadway. Organized 
April, 1860. Assets, $4,113,905. George 
C. Ripley, Pres.; Wm. J. Coffin, Sec- 
reta/ry 



Homoeopathic Mutual, 231 Broad- 
way. Organized July, 1868. Assets, 
$578,114. D. T. Marshall, Pres.; F. 
B. Mayhew, Secretary. 

Knickerbocker, 239 Broadway. Or- 
ganized April, 1853. Assets, $7,214,719. 
J. A. Nichols, Pres.; G. F. Snifpen, 
Secretary. 

Life Association of America, (St, 
Louis, Mo.), 92 Broadway. 

Manhattan, 156 Broadway. Org. 
July, 1850. Assets, $9,561,402. Henry 
Stokes, Pres.; Chris. Y, Wemple, 
■Vice-Pres.; J. L. Halsey, Secretary. 

Merchants', 257 Broadway. Organ- 
ized April, 1870. Assets, $196,659. 
James A. Taber, Pres.; A. R. Hobby, 
Secretary. 

Metropolitan, 319 Broadway. Or- 
ganized Jan., 1866. Assets, $1,848,088. 
Jas. F. Knapp, Pres.; Robert A. 
Grannis, Secretary. 

Mutual of New York, Broadwaj'', 
cor. Liberty St. Incorporated April, 
1842. Assets, $72,191,288. F. S. Win- 
ston, Pres.; R. A, McCurdy, Vice- 
Pres.; J. M. Stuart, Secretary. 

Mutual Benefit, (Newark, N. J.) S. 
H.' Lloyd, Agent, 137 Broadway. 

New York, 346 Broadway. Incor- 
porated May, 1843. Assets, $27,179,394. 
Morris Franklin, Pres. ; Wm. H. 
Beers. Vice-Pres. and Actuary; Theo- 
dore M. Banta, Cashier. 

New York Fire Ins. and Trust, 52 
Wall St. Incorporated March, 1830. 



218 



NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



Capital, $1,000,000. Henky Parish, 
Pres.; Joseph R. Kearny, Secretary. 

New Jersey Mutual, (Newark, K 
J.), 261 Broadway, and Drexel Build- 
ing, Wall St. 

North America, 17 and 19 Warren 
St. Organized Oct., 1862. Assets, 
$5,789,074. H. J. Furber, Pres. ; 
George L. Montague, Secretary. 

Provident Savings, office. Western 
Union Building, Broadway. Organized 
1875. George Walker, Pres.; Shep- 
PARD HoMANS, Vice-Pres. and Ac- 
tuary; Jas. L. Goodridge, Secretary. 

Royal, (Liverpool & London), 56 
Wall St. A. B. McDonald, Agent. 
(See adv't.) 

Security, 31 and 33 Pine St. Or- 
ganized Jan., 1862. Assets, $3,359,265. 
Robert L. Case, Pres,; Isaac H. 
Allen, Secretary. 



Travelers' Life and Accident,(Hart- 
ford), 207 Broadway. R, M. Johnson, 

Manager. 

United States, 261 Broadway. Organ- 
ized Feb., 1850. Assets, $4,381,266. 
John E. De Witt, Pres.; C. E. Pease, 

Secretary. 

Universal, 17 and 19 Wall St. Or- 
ganized Feb., 1865. Assets, $4,618,851. 
WiLLiAJH Walker, Pres.; H. J. Fur- > 
BER, Vice-Pres.; J. H. Bewley, Secre- 
tary. 

Washington, 155 Broadway. Organ- 
ized Feb., 1860. Assets, $4,379,424. 
Cyrus CuRTiss,Pres.; Wm. A. Brewer, 
Jr., Vice-Pres.; Wm. Haxtun, Sec. 

World Mutual, 60 Broadway. Or- 
ganized Nov., 1866. Assets, $344,258 
James H. Frothingham, Pres.; J. B. 
Blossom, Secreta/ry. 



RISE AND GROWTH OF LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES 

In the City of New York. 
The Life Insurance business, which has assumed such immense importance 
during the past thirty-three years that their rise and growth is a matter of as- 
tonishment, which can best be shown by enumerating the several companies 
that have been organized, with their assets, &c. : 

INCOR. NAME. ASSETS, 1875. 

1842. Mutual of New York _ $78,191,288 

1843. New York - 27,179,394 

1850. United States. 4,381,266 

1850. Manhattan 9,561,402 

1853. Knickerbocker 7,214,719 

1859. Equitable 25,606,847 

1860. Germania 1 -- 6,640,004 

1860. Home (Brooklyn) 4,113,905 

1860. Washington - 4,379,424 

1862. NorthAmerica .-- 5,789,074 

1862. Security. - 3,359,265 

1864. Brooklyn. - 2,244,341 

1864. Globe 4,093,131 

1865. Universal 4,618,851 

1866. Continental - 6,473,158 

1866. World.. 344,258 

1866. American Popular 686,172 



LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES. 219 

1866. Metropolitan . _ 1,848,088 

1868. Homoeopathic __ '578,114 

1870. Merchants' 196'659 

1875. Provident Savings (a) capital 125,' 000 

1830. New York Life Insurance Trust Com capital 1,000,000 

1833. American Life Insurance and Trust Com 

1859. Guardian* 

1863. National* 

1864. Widows and Orphajisf _ ... 

1865. Great Western^ 

1867. Excelsiorf 

1867. Asbury* 

1867. Standard 

1868. American Tontine:}: _ 

1868. Commonwealth! . _ _ 

1868. Craftsmen'sf... ._ 

1868. Eclectic* ^ 

1869. Empiref ..: 

1869. Herculesf 

1870. Government Securityf __ __ 

1872. Reservef 

Note. — Of the above thirty-six Life Insurance Companies about one-half have been obliged to 
relinquish business during the past few years. 

The gross assets of the solvent Life Insurance Companies at the close of the 
year 1874, doing business in the State of New York, amounted to $387,281,896, 
an increase of $27,141,212 over the amount reported for 1873 ; of which home 
companies possess $195,336,920, other State companies $191,944,975, showing 
a great accumulation of assets — the practical working of the system seeming to 
be to amass an immense amount of capital or wealth drawn from the insured. 

Life Insurance Companies are of recent origin, yet still for a series of years 
they rapidly increased in numbers. Commencing in 1843 we find four compa- 
nies organized in the city in 1850 and ten in 1860 — these for the most part form 
the great companies of the present time. In 1870 the number rose to forty in 
the State of New York, and have since decreased, now (1875) numbering twen- 
ty-two in the State at large. § 

The gross assets, in 1860, were $13,745,559,82 ; in 1865, $33,230,840 ; in 1870^ 
$133,119,187.48 ; in 1874, $195,336,920.95— showing a rapid increase of assets, 
that are truly alarming. At this rate, if the system is continued, in a few de- 
cades the accumulation will be enormous. 

(a) This company has a fixed capital, and offers a new plan of insurance, which renders large 
accumulation of assets unnecessary. 

♦Receiver appointed. tRe-insured in other companies. ^Closed up. 

§The total assets of the Life Insurance Companies of this State, amount to nearly $300.000,000 ; 
the amount insured by them to $1,000,000,000, and their annual receipts to more than $60,000,000. 
The magnitude of these sums, and the duration and fiduciary character of the engagements of 
these corporations, make it specially important that the interests of the policy-holders should 
be guarded with jealous care.— Insurance Department Heport, 1875. 



220 



NEW YOKK AS IT IS. 



BANKERS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 



Adams & McHarg, 33 Wall st. 
Amy, H. & Co., 21 Nassau st. 
Arthur, Geo. D. & Co., 34 Wall st. 
Babcock, Brothers & Co., 50 Wall st. 
Baldwin, Austin & Co., 72 B'way. 
Baldwin & Kimball, 16 Wall st. 
Baldwin & Weeks, 14 Wall st. 
Ballin, Eugene S. «fc Co., 24 Ex. PI. 
Baltzer & Taaks, 50 Exchange place. 
Bankers' & Brokers' Association, 25 

Broad st. 
Barney, Raymond & Co. , 5 Wall st. 
Baylis, A. B. & Co., 19 William st. 
Bell, Richard and Charles F. Smithers, 

(Agents Bank of Montreal, )61 Wall st. 
Belden, William & Co., 78 Broadway. 
Belmont, August & Co., (August 

Belmont andE. B. Lucke,) 19 Nassau 

St. 

Blake, Brothers & Co., 52 Wall st. 

Bloodgood, John & Co. , 22 William st. 

Bogart, Orlando M. &Co., 3 Nassau st. 

Bonner, G. T. & Co., 20 Broad st. 

Bound & Co., 52 Wall St. 

Brown, Bros. & Co., 59 Wall st., Bos- 
ton and Philadelphia. 

Brown, A. H. & Co. , 22 Nassau st. 

Brown, Aug. J. & Son, 50 Liberty st. 

Brown, Edward J. & Co. , 64 Broadway. 

Cammann & Co., (C. L. Cammaun, G. 
W. Fuller, Henry J. Cammann and 
Charles Schroder,) 8 Wall st. 

Camblos & Myers, (H. S. Camblos and 
T. W. Myers,) 22 and 24 New st. 

Chase & Atkins, 18 Broad st. 

Cisco, John T. & Son, 59 Wall street. 

Clark, Dodge & Co., 51 Wall st. 

Colgate, J. B. & Co.,(Jas. B. Colgate 
and Robert Colby,) 47 Wall st. 

Corbin, Austin, 61 Broadway. 

Corn & Autermann, 30 Broad st. 

Davis & Freeman, 53 Ex. Place. 

Davidson & Jones, 61 Wall st. 

Dean, McGinnis & Co. , 30 Broad st. 

Denny, Thos. & Co., 39 Wall st. 

Dennistoun & Co., 22 Ex. Place. 

De Rham «& Co. , (L. De Comeau, Alex. 
Major, and Charles de Rham,) 69 
AVilliam st. 

Donnell, Lawson & Co., 92 Broadway. 



Drexel, Morgan & Co., Broad and 
Wall sts. ; Drexel & Co., Philadel- 
phia ; Drexel, Haries & Co., Paris. 

Duncan, Mathews & Co., B'way. 

D'Wolf & Parsons, 49 Ex. Place. 

Edwards, R. L., 33 WaU st. 

Elwell, Stout & Co., 16 Wall st. 

FiSK & Hatch, (Harvey Fisk and A. ^ 
S. Hatch,) 5 Nassau st. 

Fitch, Otis & Co., 11 Pine st. 

Freeman, Petty & Bond, 21 Wall st. 

Grant & Co., 33 Wall st. 

Gaylor, Samuel A. & Co., 33 Wall st. 

Gibson, Casanova & Co. , 50 Ex. Place. 

Oilman, Son & Co., 47 Ex. Place. 

Glendinning, Davis & Amory,17 Wall st. 

Greenebaum Brothers & Co., 1 Nas- 
sau St. 

Greenleaf , Norris & Co. , 66 Ex. Place. 

Gwynne & Day, 16 Wall st. 

Haar&Co., 45 Wallst. 

Haight & Field, 2 Wall st. 

Hallgarten & Co., 28 Broad st. 

Harney & Searles, 24 New st. 

Harriot & Co., 19 New st. 

Harper & Goadley, 50 Wall st. 

Hatch. W. T. & Son, 34 Wall st. ' 

Hatch & Foote, (D. B. Hatch and B. 
Foote,) 12 Wall st. 

Heidelbach, Frank &, Co., 52 Ex. PL 

Heminway, A. G. & Co., 33 Broad st. 

Hess Brothers & Co., 20 Wall st. 

Hewson, Kilbreth & Co., 11 Broad st. 

Hoge, William & Co., 40 Wall st. 

Horton, H. L. & Co., 56 Broadway. 

Howes & Company, 6 Wall st. 

Irvin, Richard & Co. , 54 Exchange pi. 

Iselin, A. &Co., 48 Wall st. 

Ivins, Howard & Co. , 24 Nassau st. 

James, F. P. & Co., 40 Wall st. 

Jameson, Jos. A. & Co. , 14 Broad st. 

Jameson, Smith & Cotting, 14 Broad st. 

Jaudon, Samuel, 119 Broadway. 

Jesup, M. K., Paton & Co., (M. K. 
Jesup, John Paton, D. A. Lindley, 
and E. K. Goodnow,) 52 William st. 

Johnson & Fuller, 70 Broadway. 

Jones & Schuyler, 12 Pine st. 

Justh & Co. , 53 Exchange pi. 

Kelley, Eugene & Co., 45 Exchange pi. 



LIST OF BANKERS. 



221 



Kemeys & Cox, 51 Exchange pi. 

Kennedy, Hutchinson & Co., 40 Wall st. 

Ketcham & Clark, 62 Broadway. 

Kidder, A. M. & Co., 4 Wall st. 

King's, James G. Sons, (Denning Duer, 
A. Gracie King, and James G. K. 
Duer, 53 William st. 

Kelly & Alexander, 68 William st. 

Kissam & Co., 36 Wall st. 

Knauth, Nachod & Kuhne, 118 B'way. 

Knoblank & Lichtenstein, 35 Broadway. 

Kountze Brothers, 12 Wall st. 

Kuhn, Loeb & Co., 31 Nassau st. 

Lancaster, Brown & Co., 1 Ex. Court. 

Latham, Alexander & Co., 18 Wall st. 

Lawrence L. S. & Co, (Charles Fra- 
zier, F. E. Williams, and C. F. Law- 
rence, special,) 93 Nassau st. 

Lawrence, Brothers & Co. , 16 Wall st. 

Laidlaw & Co. , (Agents Bank of Cal- 
ifornia,) 12 Pine st. 

Leland Brothers & Co. , 19 Nassau st. 

Leonard, Sheldon & Co., 10 Wall st. 

Limbert& Co., 21 Nassau st. 

McKim Brothers & Co., 47 Wall st. 

Maas, Martin & Co. , 48 Exchange pi. 

Maitland, Phelps & Co., 45 Ex. pi. 

Manuel, Horace & Co., 31 Wall st. 

Martin & Runyan, 40 Wall st. 

Marsh, Jos. A. & Co., 26 Broad st. 

May and King, 11 Broad st. 

Meeker, Worden & Co., 48 Wall st. 

Merrill, G. W. & Co., 10 Wall st. 

Mills, Robeson & Smith, 2 Exchange pi. 

Moore, W. D. & Co. , 4 Exchange pi. 

Moran Brothers, corner Cedar and 
William st. 

Morgan, H. T. & Co., 35 William st. 

Morgan's M. Sons, 39 William r*. 

Morton, Bliss & Co., 33 Broad st. 

Monroe, John & Co., 8 Wall st., and 
Paris, France. 

Musgrave & Co., 19 Broad st. 

Nelson, George S. , 54 Wall st. 

Nichols, Stone & Co., 33 Wall st. 

O'Brien, William & John, 58 Wall st. 

Opdyke, George & Co., (George Op- 
dyke, C. W. Opdyke, G. F. Opdyke, 
H. B. Opdyke, George W. Farlee,) 
25 Nassau st. 

Orvis, Jos. U. & Ce., 23 Nassau st. 



Osborn, C. J. & Co., 34 Broad st. 
Peck & Martin, 44 Wall st. 
Phelps, Royal, 45 Exchange pi. 
Pillot, Perry & Co., 44 Broad st. 
Prickett, Ellis & Co., 46 Broad st. 
Purdon, Jas. and Wiggins, Augustus, 

30 Pine st. 
Ralli & Fachiri, 25 William st. 
Randolph, Birkley & Co., 6 Wall st. 
Reed, Thomas & Co. , 64 Broadway. 
Reid & Content, 20 Broad st. 
Richard, C. B. & Boas, 61 Broadway. 
Riggs&Co., 56 Wall St. 
Ripley & Co., 32 Pine st. 
Robinson, Chase & Co., 18 Broad st. . 
Robinson, Thos. B. & Co., 2 Nassau st. 
Rollins, Brothers & Co. , 21 Wall st. 
Russell, S. F. & Co., 6 Wall st. 
Saunders & Hardenbergh, 112 B'way. 
Schafer Brothers, 15 Broad st. 
Schulz & Ruckgaber, 40 Exchange pi. 
Schulze, F. H., 35 Wall st. 
Scott, E. P. & Co., 3 Exchange court 
Scott, Strong & Co., 36 Broad st. 
Scott, Wm. B. & Co., (Wm. B. Scott, 

Albert E. Scott,) 24 Pine st. 
Seligman, J. & W. & Co., 50 Exchange 

pi. , and 21 Broad st. 
Smith, Seaver & Bower, 8 Broad st. 
Smith, Wm. Alexander & Co., 40 Wall 

of pppf 

Soutter & Co., (Wm. K. Soutter, T. H. 

Porter, J. T. Soutter,) 78 B'way. 
Stead, Stone & Co., 46 Broad st. 
Stebbins, H. & G. & Son, 50 Ex. pi. 
Sterett, Colbron & Co., 17 New st. 
Sternberger, M. & S. , 44 Exchange pL 
Stout & Dickinson, 25 Broad st. 
Stuart, J. & J. & Co., 33 Nassau st. 
Stuart, Andrews & Co., 34 Pine st. 
Talmadge, Henry & Co. , 39 Pine st. 
Taussig, Fisher & Co., 32 Broad st. 
Taylor, Alex., Sons, 56 Broadway. 
Taylor Brothers, 17 Wall st. 
Tilney, J. S. & Co., 16 Wall st. 
Toussaint & Kollstede, 42 Exchange pL 
Tremain, E. R. & Co., 6 Wall st. 
Underbill, J. F. & Co., 54 Wall st. 
Unger, Charles & Co., 46 Ex pi. 
Urquhart & Co. , 30 Pine st. 
Van Deventer & Patton, 6 Wall st. 



222 



NEW YOKK AS IT IS. 



Vermilye & Co, (Washington R. Ver- 
milye, Jas. A. Trowbridge, Donald 
Mackay, Latham A. Fish,) 16 Nassau. 

Veruam & Hoy, 34 New st. 

Von Hoffman, L. & Co., 50 Wall st. 

Walker, Andrews & Co., 14 Wall St., 
and Andrews & Co., Pads. 

Ward, S. G. & G. C, 53 Wall st. 

Ward, Campbell & Co., (Alexander 
Campbell, Henry G. Chapman, and 
Richard Baring Gould,) 56 Wall st. 

Warren, John & Son, 65 Wall st. 

Warren, Kidder «fc Co., 4 Wall st. 

Watson, John H. & Co., 201 Broadway. 

Watson, W. & W. J. Ingram, agents 
Merchant Bank of Canada, 63 Wall st. 



Wells, Fargo & Co., 65 Broadway, and 
San Francisco, Cal. 

White, Morris & Co., 18 Wall st. 

White, Defreitas & Rathborne, 17 
Broad st. 

Whitehouse & Co., 25 Broad st. 

Whittemore & Co. , 56 Exchange pi. 

Williams, H. C. & Co., 49 Wall st. 

WiNSLOw, Lanier & Co., (J. F. D. 
Lanier, Charles Lanier, John W. Ellis,. 
John S. Sauzade, and Edward Win- 
slow,) 27 Pine st. 

Winthrop, Robert & Co., 18 Wall st. 

Wood & Davis, (C. D. Wood and S. D. 
Davis,) 31 Pine st. 



MONIED INSTITUTIONS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, 

WITH THEIR AMOUNT OP CAPITAL, &C., 1876. 

Cajntal. 

48 National Banks $68,500,000 

37State Banks 16,500,000 $ 85,000,000 

38 Savings Banks January, 1876, 190,000,000 

74 New York Fire Insurance Companies. ) ^^ nnn f\r\n 

12 Brooklyn* " " " \ 40,000,000 

13 Foreign Fire Insurance Companies 45,000,000 

10 Marine Insurance Companies 25,000,000 

20 Life Insurance Companies 195,000,000 

12 Loan and Trust Companies 18,000,000 

5 Safe Deposit Companies 

1 New York Stock Exchange 

1 New York Gold Exchange 

1 Bank Clearing House. _ 

In addition to the above 86 Fire Insurance Companies in the City of New 
York, chartered by the State, there are 13 Foreign Companies, with an esti- 
mated capital of $45,000,000 ; besides numerous companies from other States 
doing business in the city. There are also a number of Marine and Life Insu- 
rance Companies, both Foreign and from other States. 

BANKERS AND BROKERS. 

There are about 300 Bankers, besides numerous Brokers, who transact an 
immense amount of business, both in dealing in money, stocks, etc. The 
capital thus invested must amount to several hundred millions of dollars, making 
the total cash capital and assets of Monied Institutions and Bankers to represent 
at least $1,000,000,000. 

* Having offices in the City of New York. 



"i^^^Mm^&r^ 





BROOKLYN NAVY YARD. 



PART X. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE CITY OF BROOKLYN 

AND OTHER CITIES IN THE VICINITY OF NEW YORK 



The City of Brooklyn, capital of 
Kings County, N. Y., is a sea-port ad- 
vantageously situated on the west end 
of Long Island, opposite the City of 
New York, with which it is closely con- 
nected by numerous steam ferries and a 
new Bridge now nearly completed. 
The East River, which separates Long 
Island from New York Island, is here 
about half a mile in width, affording a 
sufficient depth of water for the largest 
ships. By the acquisition of Williams- 
bui'gh, (annexed in 1854,) Brooklyn 
now contains an area of about 16,000 
acres, having an exterior line of 22 
miles. The surface is uneven and the 
south and east borders are occupied by 
a broad range of low hills, which extend 
east to Queens County. Along the 
water's edge, opposite the lower part of 
New York, is an irregular bluff known 
as Brooklyn Heights. Wallabout Bay 
Is a deep indentation lying between the 
old towns of Brooklyn and Williams- 
burgh. Gowanus Bay extends into the 
south part of the City. The land that 
borders upon these bays is flat and 
marshy. Most of the city site, however, 
is on elevated ground, and well adapted 



for avenues and building purposes. 
The water front is entirely occupied by 
wharves and warehouses, while other 
portions of the city are devoted to large 
manufactories of various kinds ; here 
are extensive ship yards and other pur- 
suits connected with shipping. 

The Atlantic Dock, in South Brooklyn, 
near Buttermilk Channel, with an area 
of 40 acres, is a work of great utility ; 
it has sufficient depth of water for any 
vessel, and is usually crowded with 
ships and steamers. The commerce of 
Brooklyn is large, though it scarce has 
an independent existence, owing to its 
proximity to the City of New York. 
Ship and boat-building and repairing 
are extensively carried on at Williams- 
burg and Green Point on the East River. 

The United States Navy Yard is 
located upon Wallabout Bay. Here is 
also the United States Marine Hospital 
for the care of the sick and infirm sea- 
men belonging to the Navy. Numerous 
ships-of-war of a large class are usually 
to be seen at the Government Docks, or 
anchored off in the stream, this being a 
great rendezvous for vessels and fleets 
arriving from foreign ports. 



224 



NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



Public Parks. 

Brooklyn, which, now ranks as the 
third city of the Union, boasts of sev- 
eral fine parks, of which Prospect 
Park is the most extensive, containing 
about 600 acres and laid out at a total 
cost of $10,000,000. It was first pro- 
jected in 1860, though the original plan 
was exceedingly meagre in its pro- 
visions. The site of this park, formerly 
known as "Prospect Hill," is one of 
surprising natural beauty, with mag- 
nificent views embracing every variety 
of prospect and scenery. The rich soil 
is covered in Summer with a luxuriant 
growth of plants and flowers ; stately 
forest trees wave in the breeze ; hill- 
ocks, lakes, and water-courses lend the 
charms of rural scenery ; while art, with 
lavish expenditure, has been introduced 
to supply with exquisite sculpture and 
multiplied adornments all that can 
please the eye and enrich the mind. 
Twenty-five acres are devoted to zoo- 
logical gardens. Its tasteful fountains, 
arbors, terraces, exquisite bridges, 
music-stands, skating ponds, winding 
pedestrian and carriage ways, in mag- 
nificence equal those of Central Park, 
New York. The site of this Park is 
unrivalled as regards elevation — over- 
looking Brooklyn, the City of New 
York and the surrounding country, 
together with a fine view of the Bay of 
New York and the Atlantic Ocean as 
seen in the distance. 

Washington Park. — This park 
covers the site of Fort Green of Rev- 
olutionary fame, and is the oldest of the 
Brooklyn parks. It is but a short dis- 
tance from the ferry, will well repay a 



visit, and may be reached by the horse 
cars. 

Carroll Park. — This is a small 
park handsomely formed at the inter- 
section of Carroll and Court streets. It is 
much frequented by the working classes. 

Brooklyn Parade Ground. — This 
is a level tract of rich greensward just, 
outside of the city limits on the way to 
Coney Island, and is considered the 
finest parade ground in the United 
States. 

Prospect Park Fair Grounds, situ- 
ated at Gravesend, between Brooklyn 
and Coney Island, is owned by a pri- 
vate association, and is a tract of 80 
acres containing a one-mile driving 
track, a club-house, a hotel, and fair 
ground, costing in the aggregate over a 
quarter of a million. 

There are several other parks and 
drives of more or less notoriety ; while 
City Railroads run in almost every di- 
rection to different parts of the city. 

The Nassau Water Works afford an 
abundant supply of pure water, while 
the several Gas Works afford light for 
the city. 

The numerous Churches of Brooklyn 
— for which it is famed — its Institutions 
of Learning, Libraries, etc., together 
with an easy access to the City of New 
York, makes this favored city a most 
desirable place of abode, both for the 
wealthy and the laboring classes. Its 
public building are numerous, and many 
of them costly edifices. The City Hall 
and County Court House are fine build- 
ings, the former in part surrounded by 
a small park, standing at the junction 
of Court and Fulton streets. 



BKOOKLYN. 



225 



The Public Sclwols are numerous, be- 
ing under the charge of a Board of 
Education. Packer Collegiate Institute, 
for girls, occupies an elegant building, 
to wliich is attached an astronomical 
observatory. The Brooklyn Institute 
has a free library, and provides free 
lectures, and lessons in drawing and 
painting for apprentices. The Brooklyn 
Athenceum, the Mercantile Library and 
Reading Boom, (erected at a cost of 
$300,000, the Laio Library and Naval 
Lyceum, are valuable institutions. 

Among the societies for intellectual 
improvement are the Long Island His- 
torical Society, the Hamilton Literary 
Association, the Franklin Debating Asso- 
ciation, the Young Men's Association, 
and several others of a similar char- 
acter. 

The Academy of Music and the The- 
atres afford ample places of amusement 
for the people of Brooklyn, now num- 
bering near half a million of favored 
citizens, most of whom are closely 
identified with the City of New York. 
A late writer remarks : " We know far 
too little about the ' City of Churches,' 
which, without as much business of its 
own as is carried on in towns of half 
the population, has gone on expanding 
in all directions, improving its natural 
advantages, acquiring a Park only in- 
ff rior to Central Park and Boulevards, 
of great extent, until it is undoubtedly 
the largest ' residence city ' in the 
world. " But the Brooklyn Eagle brings 
out facts from the last State census, 
and from other reliable sources of in- 
formation, which ought to be heeded 
by New Yorkers. Take, for instance. 



the statistics of new buildings erected 
from 1864 to 1875, inclusive : 



Year. 


^1 


J 




1864 


714 
598 
1,058 
1,657 
2,631 
2,671 
2,486 
2,124 
2,015 
1,920 
1,786 
1,470 


$1,498,400 $2,100 
1,717,200 9! ««7 


1865 


1866 

1867 


2,520,500 
3,595,600 
4,815,e00 
5,401,300 
5,592,200 
4,930,900 
4,684,400 
5,020.600 
4,251,700 
3,617,300 


2,382 
2,170 
1,880 
2,022 
2,266 
2 321 


1868 


1869 


1870 


1871 


1872 

1873 


2,324 
2,614 
2,380 
2,460 


1874 


1875 




21,130 


$47,645,100 





The mere fact of the erection of 21,130 
buildings in the period above given, is 
one that, of itself, should attract atten- 
tion. In other words, accomodations 
have been provided for 150,000 inhab- 
itants, or for an increase of population 
equal to that of a city as populous as 
Buffalo. This growth has not been 
due, in any large degree, to the growth 
of the business of Brooklyn, but has 
been owing far more to the fact that, 
owing to the lack of rapid transit, and 
high prices of real estate, tens of thous- 
ands of people v/ho would have pre- 
ferred living on this island, have been 
driven across the East River. 

Brooklyn City Hospital.— This 
institution is situated on an elevated 
site, near De Kalb avenue, on Raymond 
street, with a frontage of 200 feet, and 
consists of a main structure and two 
wings. It is complete in its appoint- 
ments, and contains private wards for 
such as require and are able to pay for 
special attention. 

Long Island College Hospital 
occupies 14 lots, at the junction of 



226 



NEW YOEK 



Pacific and Henry streets. It provides 
for in-door and out-door patients, lias 
a school for nurses, and is a medical 
college proper. It cost $50,000. 

United States Naval Hospital, 
situated east of the Navy Yard. Con- 
tains a laboratory, where medicines are 
manufactured for the United States 
Navy. 

Eye and Ear Hospital, corner of 
Johnson and Washington streets, and 
treats the suffering gratuitously. It is 
supported by private cliarit}^ 

St. Peter's Hospital. — A brick 
structure, on the corner of Hicks and 
Congress streets, managed by "Sisters 
of the Poor of the Third order of St. 
Francis." 

Brooklyn Dental Infirmary, situ- 
ated at No. 260 Washington street, and 
was the ^vstfree dental infirmary estab- 
lished in this country. 

Brooklyn Orphan Asylum, located 
on Cumberland street. 

Church Charity Fount)Ation, cor- 
ner of Herkimer and Albany streets. It 
combines hospital, asylum, home, 
training scool, bethel for seamen, etc. 

Howard Colored Orphan Asylum, 
on Ralph avenue and Pacific street. 

Catholic Orphan Asylums. — 
Female Asylum, corner Congress and 
Clinton streets ; also Willoughby snd 
Yates avenues. Roman Catholic Or- 
phan Asylum, on block between Albany 
and Troy avenues, and Wyckoff and 
Warren streets. Orphan's Home Asy- 
lum, on Graham avenue, near Montrose. 



The rise and growth of Brooklyn 
deserves particular attention, owing to 



AS IT IS. 

its rapid strides in population and 
wealth. It became an incorporated 
city in 1834, with a population of about 
20,000. 

P&pulatmi at Different Periods. 

In 1800'- 3,298 

" 1810 4,402 

" 1820 7,175 

" 1830 15,29^ 

" 1840 36,233 

" 1850 96,850 

" 1860 266,661 

'' 1870 396,105 

" 1875, by the State Census... 484,616 

The avenues and streets are numer- 
ous, while many of them are occupied 
by Street Bailroads, extending to almost 
every part of the city. {See List of 
Streets, etc.) 

United States Navy Yard, Brooklyn. 

This is an important national depot 
of great interest and curiosity, and is 
visited by many thousands annually. In 
1801 the United States Government first 
purchased grounds located on Wall- 
about Bay for the above purpose ; sub- 
sequent purchases has increased the 
plot to about 200 acres, lying between 
the Eastern and Western Districts of 
Brooklyn. The Navy Yard proper 
covers about 50 acres, is laid out with 
paved streets and walks which are kept 
in good order. The Dry Dock is a vast 
structure capable of taking in a ship 
300 feet long, and has cost near $3,000,- 
000. It is emptied by immense steam 
pumps constructed for the purpose. 
The Yard contains several large build- 
ings, to cover ships of war while in 
process of construction, lumber ware- 
houses, together with great numbers of 
cannon and quantities of shot and shells. 



BROOKLYN FERRY COMPANY. 



227 



foundries, &c. Here are cottages for 
officers, baiTacks for troops, a Marine 
Hospital, a Naval Museum filled with 
curiosities, which are open to the public, 
and many other objects of interest, in- 
cluding ships of war lying at the docks 
or anchored in the bay. 

Nassau Water Works, Brooklyn. 

Description. 

Ground broken, July 31st, 1856. 

Water first distributed, Dec. 13, 1858. 

Work completed, April, 1861. 

Length of Main Aqueduct, 12^ miles. 

Length of Branches, 6 miles. 

Length of cast iron main and distrib- 
uting pipes, 120 miles. 

Capacities. 

Aqueduct per day, 40,000,000 gals. 

Kidgewood Reservoir, 170, 000, 000 g'ls. 

Mt. Prospect " 20,000,000 '• 

Average daily consumption, (1875) 
37,000,000 gallons. 

Heights. 

Surface Ridge wood Reservoir, 170 ft. 

Surface Mount Prospect Reservoir, 
198 feet. 



Top of Tower Mount Prospect Park, 
230 feet. 

Total cost of works, about $10,000,000. 

From the top of the Tower in Pros- 
pect Park is afforded a grand view, 
overlooking the Park and City of 
Brooklyn ; south may be seen the At- 
lantic Ocean ; west, Staten Island and 
New Jersey ; north, the Bay and City 
of New York ; east, the Navy Yard, 
Williamsburgh and the East River, al- 
together affording one of the grandest 
panoramas imaginable. 

Purity of the Water. 

The quality of the Ridgewood water 
compares very favorably with that of 
any other water supply in the world. 
On the analyses of the waters used in 
several cities the following are the re- 
sults, indicating the grains of solid mat- 
ter per gallon : Brooklyn, 2.64; Boston; 
3.57; Philadelphia, 4.26; Albany, 4.72; 
Paris, 9.86. 



UNION FERRY COMPANY OF BROOKLYN. 

This Company now run five Ferries, owning 16 Boats. 

1. Catharine, from Main street, Brooklyn, to Catharine street. New York. 

2. Fulton, from Fulton street, Brooklyn, to Fulton street. New York. 

3. Wall street, from Montague street, Brooklyn, to Wall street. New York. 

4. South, from Atlantic street, Brooklyn, to Wliitehall street. New York. 

5. Hamilton, from Hamilton avenue, Brooklyn, to Whitehall street. New 
York. 

Running thirteen boats daily and six all night. Transporting 125,000 foot 
passengers daily, over and back — 44,000,000 annually ; being more than the 
entire population of the United States, the Fulton Ferry alone transporting every 
seven days more than the entire population of Brooklyn. Only one life lost on 
the boats in fifteen years. In the meantime no person injured permanently on 
the boats. This Company transport more passengers than any other corporation 



228 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

in the world, by land or water. Fare, two cents in day time, and one cent be- 
tween 5 and 1% morning and evening. Consume 28,000 tons of coal annually. 
Employ 300 hands daily. CajDital stock, $100,000. 

N. B. Morse, President. 

H. E. Plerrepont, Vice-President. 

J. A, Perry, Secretary and Treasurer. 

W. A. Degrauw, Cashier. 

Cyrus P. Smith, Managing Director. 

Prior to 1810 row-boats and pirogues were the only ferry-boats upon the rivei. 
Next came the horse boats, wheel in the middle. The first steamboat, called 
the "Nassau," was put on Fulton Ferry on 8th May, 1814, and ran with horse 
boats till 1824. R. S. Stevens, Esq., put a side-wheel steamboat on Hoboken 
Ferry in 1822. 



BROOKLYN COLLEGIATE AND POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, 

Livingston Street, near Court Street. 

This institution was incorporated in April, 1854, and first opened for students 
in September, 1855. Its object is to afford to the youth of Brooklyn, and to 
others who may choose it as a place of study, the requisite facilities for a 
thorough education adapted to their destined pursuits. 

The large and commodious edifice erected for its use is provided with all ap- 
propriate means and appliances for the benefit and comfort of its pupils and for 
the business of instruction. The Department of Physical Sciences is furnished 
with a valuable Philosophical Apparatus, a well-appointed Chemical Laboratory, 
and a Cabinet of Natural History. To each of these large additions are annu- 
ally made. The management of the Institute, the appointment of its oflicers, 
and the administration of its finances, are committed to a Board of Trustees,, 
elected by the stockholders. 

Board of Trustees. 



J. S. T. Stranahan, 
Luther B. Wyman, 
JosiAH O. Low, 
John T. Martin, 
George A. Jarvis, 
Charles S. Baylis, 
James How, 
I. H. Frothing ham. 



Charles R. Marvin, 
Alfred S. Barnes, 
Alexander M. White, 
Walter T. Hatch, 
Joshua L. Pope, 
Benjamin T. Frothingham, 
William C. Fowler, 
C. L. Benedict, 
T. H. Marvin. 

Isaac H. Frothingham, President. 

Benj. T. Frothingham, Secretary. 

Tasker H. Marvin, Treasurer. 

Albert J. Lepfingwell, Registrar and Clerk. 



LONG ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 229 

Faculty. 

David H, Cochran, Ph. D., LL.D., President, and Professor of History 
and Philosophy, 

George W. Collord, A. M., Professor of the Greek and Latin Languages. 

RuFus Sheldon, A. M. , Professor of Pure Mathematics. 

Rodney G. KmsALL, A. M., Professor of Applied Mathematics. 

George W. Plympton, A. M. , Professor of Physical Science. 

Brainerd Kellogg, A. M., Professor of the English Language and Liter- 
ature. 

Philip Willner, A. M. , Professor of the French and German Languages. 

Const ANTiNE Hertzberg, Professor of Drawing. 

Robert Foster, A. M., Superintendent of the Collegiate Department. 

Edward C. Seymour, A. M. , Principal of the Academic Department. 

Frederick F. Muller, Professor of Vocal Music. 

Jesse W. Payson, Professor of Bookkeeping and Penmanship. 



LONG ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 

Rooms on Court Street near City Hall. Founded, 1863. 

This Society had its origin in the desire of many gentlemen, principally living 
in Brooklyn, not only to bring together, at a convenient centre, books, docu- 
ments, memorials of all kinds, relating to the history of Long Island, and of the 
State of New York, but also to collect a library rich in all departments of his- 
torical literature ; a library of reference, in which the student may find what he 
needs for the illustration of any period in history, of any epoch of progress, in 
politics, art, invention, letters and human thought. 

The Society was incorporated in 1863 ; and it numbers, at present, 596 an- 
nual members, and 424 life members. 

The library already contains over twenty-six thousand volumes, with nearly 
as many selected pamphlets, many of the latter being rare and valuable. It is 
very rich in works relating to American local history, and to family genealogy ; 
and contains nearly all the important works which have been published upon 
general American history. It is also strong in English and French history and 
biography, and has a fine collection of costly and richly illustrated volumes, re- 
lating to fine art, antiquities, and natural liistory. It has also courses of Lec- 
tures every Winter on historical subjects. 

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY — 1875-6. 

Richard S. Storrs, President. 

Henry C. Murphy, First Vice-President. 

Joshua M. Van Cott, Second Vice-President. 

J. Carson Brevoort, Foreign Corresponding Secreta/ry. 

T. Stafford Drowne, Home Corresponding Secretary. 

Chauncey L Mitchell, B£cording Secretary. 

James R. Taylor, Treasurer. 

George Hannah, Librarian. 

Executive Committee.— :i . Carson Brevoort, Chairman; Henry Sheldon, Charles 
Storrs, John Greenwood, Camden C. Dike, Elias Lewis, Jr., Enos N. Taft ; 
George Hannah, Secretary. 



230 



NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



MAYORS OF THE CITY OF BROOKLYN, 

Incoi-porated May 20, 1834. 



George Hall* ....1834^35 

Jonathan Trotter* 1836-37 

Jeremiah Johnson* 1838-39 

Cyrus P. Smithf. .1840-41 

Henry a Murphy 1842-43 

Joseph Sprague* .1844-45 

Thos. G. Talmage* 1846 

Francis B. Stryker 1847-49 

Edward Copeland* 1850 

Samuel Smith,* 3 months 1850 

Conklin Brush* .1851-53 

* Deceased. t Elected by the people 



Edward A. Lambert. 1853-54 

George Hall* 1855-56 

Samuel S. Powell 1857-60 

Martin Kalbfleisch-- 1861-63 

Alfred M. Wood 1864-65 

Samuel Booth. _ 1866-67 

Martin Kalbfleisch*. .1868-71 

Samuel S. Powell 1872-78 

John W. Hunter 1874-75 

Frederick A Schroeder 1876-77 



previously appointed by the Common Council. 



BROOKLYN CITY OFFICERS— 1876. 

Mayor's Office, 

Nos. 2 and 3 City Hall. 

FREDERICK A. SCHROEDER, Mayor, 
Charles A. McLaughlin, Secretary, 

BOARD OP ALDER^IEN. 



Salary. 
$10,000. 

1,800. 



Wards. 

1— 

2— George H. Sterling. 

3 — Charles J, Shepard. 

4— Robert Black. 

5 — Henry Corr. 

6 — James Kane. 

7 — A. Stewart Rowley. 

8— David S. Arnott. 

9— William H. Murtha. 
10 — Simon Gunder. 
11— Stephen M. Griswold 
12 — James Donovan. 
13— William H. Ray. 



John French, Esq., President. 

Wards. 



14 — Mark Reardon, 
15— John T. Parker. 
16 — David Acker. 
11 — Herman Cottrell. 
18— George W. Williams. 
19 — Samuel Guthrie. 
20— John French. 
21 — Frederick Sigrist. 
22— William A. Fritz. 
23— Francis B. Fisher. 
24 — George Jennison. 
25— Robert HiU. 



City Clerk's Office. 

No. 1 City Hall. 
Wm. G. Bishop, City Clerk, 
Dennis McNamara, Dept. Clerk, - 



$3,000. 
2,500. 



DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE. 

Rooms, No. 9, 10 and 11 First Floor, City Hall. 
Samuel S. Powell, Comptroller, - - - $10,000 
Aaron Brinkerhopf, Deputy Comptroller, ■ 3,000 



BROOKLYN CITY OFFICERS. 231 

Receiver of Taxes. 
William A. Fury, - . - . . 7^000 

Register of Arrears. 
Daniel D. Whitney, - . . . . 5,000 

Auditor. 

William S. Searing, ----- 5,000 

Coroners of Kings County. 

Office, No. 6 Court House Building. 

Henry C. Simms, M. D., and Francis Nolan. 



POLICE DEPARTMENT. 

Central Office, 76 Court Street. 

Daniel D. Briggs, President, ) 

William B. Hurd, >• Commissionen 

John Pyburn, ) 



Health Department. 

Office, 66 Court Street. 

Andrew Otterson, M. D., President, $5,000, 

John French, President Board of Aldermen, \- Commissioners. 

Daniel D. Briggs, President Board of Police, 

Fra2^ CIS H. Stuart, M. D. , Registrar, 



Commissioners of Public Charities, Kings County. 

Office, near Court House, Livingston Street. 
Thomas P. Norris, M. D. , President. 

Bernard Began, John Raber, Bernard Miles, Harmond V. Storms. 

The Commissioners of Public Charities have charge of the following institu- 
tions : 

County Alms House, County Hospital, Nursery Building (undergoing repairs), 
and Lunatic Asylum, all of which are located at Flatbush. 

Attached are grounds for the benefit of the inmates, consisting of 4i^ acres of 
land. The present number in the Alms House, Hospital and Lunatic Asylum 
number about 2,100. 

Park Commissioners. 

Office, 94 Court Street. 
James S. Stranahan, President. 
John H. Prentice, William IMarshall, Abiel A. Low, Seymou- L. Husted, 
Abraham B. Bayiis, Stephen Haynes, Fred. A. Schrode?-, ex-officio, John N. 
Taylor, Comptroller and Counsel; Olmsted, Vaux & Co., Arctiiteci> and Superin- 
tendents ; John Y. Cuyler, Chief Engineer. 



232 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

Board of Commissioners of City Works. 

Office, Room 10, City Hall, Brooklyn. 
Gen. Henry W. Slocum, President. 
William A. Fowler, T. W. Adams, Daniel L. Northrup, Secretary; Julius 
W. Adams, Chief Engineer. 



KINGS COUNTY OFFICERS. 
County Clerk's Office, 

No. 15 County Court House Building. 

George G. Herman, County Clerk. 
George G. Barnard, Deputy Clerk. 

District Attorney's Office, 

No. 3 Court House Building. 
Winchester Britton, Distr Attorney. 

Sheriff's Office, 

No. 8 Court House Building. 

Albert Daggett, Sheriff. 

Lewis R. Stegman, Under Sheriff. 

Surrogate's Office, 
County Court House Building. 

William D. Vbeder, Surrogate. 
Judah B. Voorhees, Deputy Surrogate. 
John Courtney, Administration Clerk. 

County Treasurer, 

13 Court House Building. 

Thomas A. Gardiner, Treasurer. 
James Gardiner, Deputy Treasurer. 



COURTS. 

United States District Court. 

Charles L. Benedict, Judge. 
Asa W. Tenney, District Attorney. 
Samuel R. Harlow, Marshal. 

Supreme Court, 

Room 19, Court House Building. 
Daniel P. Barnard, CJiief Justice. 
Pratt, Gilbert and Dykeman, Justices. 
General Terms and Special Terms are held Monthly. 



BROOKLYN CITY DEBT — DEPARTMENT OF CHARITIES. 233 

County Court and Sessions. 

Henry A. Moore, Judge. 
Bernard J. York, Clerk. 

City Court of Brooklyn. 

Joseph Neilson, Chief Judge. 
AlexanderMcCue, [ j^^^^^^ 



George G. Reynolds 
George W. Knaebel, Clerk. 
Alden J. Spooner, AssH Clerk. 
Charles Thomas, Ass't Clerk. 



BROOKLYN CITY DEBT— 1875. 
Extract from the Annual Message of the Mayor of Brooklyn, dated Jan. 3, 1876. 
Statement, showing the Debt on the 31st of December, 1875 : 

Permanent Debt $26,063,000 

Temporary Debt... 20,052,000 

Tax Certificates of Indebtedness 2,379,000 

$38,494,000 
Less Sinking Fund 3,462,736 

$35,031,264 
Add Kings County Debt, for which the City 
is liable 3,739,300 

Total Debt $38,770,464 

Assessed Value of City Property $193, 000, 000 

The Rate of Taxation in Brooklyn is determined by wards, and the figures 
for this year vary from $3.13 to $3.50 per $100. The average rate is $3.40 per 
cent. , or fifty cents on the $100 more than New York has to pay. 



REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CHARITIES, 1876. 

Statement of the Relief given to the out-door poor of the City of New York, 
during the past eight years : 

Year Money. Coal. Transportation. Total. 

1868 $65,453 $37,474 $1,977 $104,904 

1869 73,095 43,855 2,009 118,959 

1870 77,987 22,299 1,719 103,005 

1871 - 55,066 31,784 1,731 88,581 

1872 34,704 25,597 1,694 61,995 

1873 42,810 20,082 1,228 64,120 
1874' 49,119 24,637 649 65,405 
1875 r..-- 49,231 26,827 1,066 66,124 

The Report showed that the per capita expense incurred in the mamtenance 
of the inmates of the several institutions during 1875, was less than m any pre- 
ceding year. In 1874 the average number supported was 10,289 ; in 1875, 10,387. 



234 



NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



OFFICIAL CENSUS OF BROOKLYN AND KING'S COUNTY-1875. 

The returns of the State Census of 1875 have been completed and distributed 
by the Secretary of State. They are tabulated in conjunction with the returns 
of the six previous censuses taken from 1845 to 1875 inclusive, in such a manner 
that the steady increase of population is immediately seen by comparison. 

The following Table shows the totals in King's County for the time named : 



Wards. 


1840. 


1845. 


1850. 


1855. 


1860. 


: 1865. 


1870. 


1875. 


1 


2148 
5447 
3833 
6827 
7415 
4043 
4521 
944 
1054 


4622 
6903 
5936 
8819 
9419 
10651 
9958 
1369 
1897 


6062 

8749 
11032 
13682 
11536 
6371 
2585 
3261 
11782 
12421 


6441 

8353 

8900 

12282 

16352 

18490 

12523 

5318 

9133 

21749 

22213 

6990 

14044 

12414 

6559 

15350 

5508 

2601 


6967 

9817 

10084 

11766 

17400 

27710 

12096 

9190 

17343 

25258 

28851 

11083 

17958 

15475 

10566 

21181 

7934 

4316 

6697 


6128 

8760 

8890 

11506 

17820 

26407 

15968 

9829 

23443 

28668 

18242 

13085 

17791 

15425 

11449 

24379 

10243 

6053 

8055 

13980 


6476 
9117 
9984 
12087 
20490 
28296 
22312 
9592 
15279 
34592 
21243 
18302 
18711 
20649 
18406 
26438 
17353 
11607 
16321 
19179 
27904 
11761 


16085 


2 

3 


8861 
15815 


4 


12616 


5 


lf-593 


6 


34074 


7 

o 


26494 
12127 


9::::::::::::::;::::::::::: 


13648 


10 


24867 


11 1 




21633 


12 1 




17526 


13 








19549 


14 






23926 


15 , 




21256 


16 




39212 


17 




24001 


18 






17459 


19 






21906 


20 . 


i 






21430 


21 












24834 


22 















17731 


23 














10010 


24 












5290 


25 












12982 



















Total Brooklyn 


36233 


59574 


98838 


205280 


266661 


296112 


396099 


484616 







The changes of the Population in the County Towns are thus shown 



COUNTY TOWNS. 


1855. 


1860. 


1865. 


1870. 


1875. 


Flatbush 


3,280 
1,578 
1,256 
2,261 
2,730 


3,471 
1,652 

1,286 
3,271 

2,781 


2,778 
1,904 
1,627 
5,009 
3,394 


6,309 

2,286 
2,131 
9,800 
3,296 


4,968 


Flatlands 

Gravesend 

New Lots 


2,654 

2,182 
10,765 


New Utrecht 


3,805 






Total towns 


11,105 


12,461 


14,712 


23,822 


24,600 







Total King's County, 1875 509,216. 



In the above totals for 1875 Brooklyn is credited with 2,691 persons in asylums, 
penal institutions, &c., and the county towns with 226 in the same or similar 
institutions. 



BANKS IN BROOKLYN. 



235 



NEWSPAPERS IN BROOKLYN. 
Daily. 

Brooklyn Daily Argus, 325 Washington Street. 
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 32 and 34 Fulton Street. 
Brooklyn Union, Fulton corner Front Street. 
Brooklyn Times (Williamsburgh), 24 and 26 Broadway. 
Freie Presse (German), Myrtle Avenue. 

Weekly. 

Brooklyn Sunday Sun, Washington corner Johnson Street 
Brooklyn Review, 351 Fulton Street. 
South Brooklyn News, 449 Fifth Avenue. 



Association Advocate, 
Educational Journal. 



Monthly. 

Gallatin Place corner Fulton Street. 



BANKS IN THE CITY OF BROOKLYN. 

For Rules and Begulations, see New York City Banks. 



Atlantic, (State,) 49 Fulton street. 
Organized, 1872. Capital, $200,000. 
Par $100. George S. Puffer, President ; 
Oliver M. Denton, Cashier. 

Brooklyn, (State,) Fulton, corner 
Front. Incorporated, 1832. Organ- 
ized, 1859. Capital, $300,000. Par $50. 
George A. Thorne, President ; P. S. 
Henderson, Cashier. 

Commercial, (State,) 18 Court street. 
Organized, 1868. Capital, $180,000. 
Thomas D. Hudson, President ; John 
J. Vail, Cashier. 

First National, First street, corner 
Broadway, E. D. Organized, 1852. 
Capital, $500,000. Par $100. Nicholas 
Wyckoff, President; J. G. Jenkins, 
Cashier. 

Fulton, (State,) 361 Fulton street. 
Organized, 1870. Capital, $225,000. 
Edward A. Lambert, President; John 
A. Nexsen, Cashier. 

Long Island, (State,) 47 Fulton st. 
Organized, 1845. Capital, $400,000. 



Par $50. Wm. C. Fowler, President,- 
A. J. Beekman, Cashier. 

Manufacturers', (National,) 64 Broad- 
way, E. D. Capital, $252,000 Par 
$30. C. H. Fellows, President; T. C. 
Disbrow, Cashier. 

Mechanics, (State,) Court street, cor 
Montague. Organized, 1852. Capital, 
$500,000. Par $50. Dan'l Chauncey, 
President; Geo. W. White, Cashier. 

Mechanics and Traders, (State,) 

Greenpoint avenue, corner Franklin, (E. 
D.) Organized, 1867. A. K. Meserole, 
President; H. J. Oldering, jr.. Cashier. 

Nassau, (National,) 24 Court street. 
Capital, $300,000. Organized, 1859. 
Crawford C. Smith, President; Edgar 
T. Jones, Cashier. 

National City, 357 Fulton street. 
Capital, $300,000. Organized, 1850. 
John J. Studwell, President; Andrew 
A. Rowe, Cashier. 



236 



NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



BANKS FOR SAVINGS IN THE CITY OF BROOKLYN. 



Brooklyn, 217 Fulton street. Incor- 
porated in 1827. Assets, January 1, 
1875, $13,457,443. Hosea Webster, 
President ; John A. Latimer, Account- 
ant. 

Bushwick, 823 Broadway. Incor- 
porated, 1868. Assets, $39,318. Joseph 
Liebman, President ; Samuel L. Car- 
lisle, Secretary. 

Dime, 367 Fulton street. Incorpor- 
ated, 1859. Assets, $7,661,200. Sey- 
mour L. Husted, President ; Charles 
Lowry, Secretary. 

Dime, of "Williamsburg, 48 Broad- 
way. Incorporated, 1864. Assets, 
$1,380,691. G. W. Kelsey, President ; 
Wm. Grandy, Secretary. 

East Brooklyn, 643 Myrtle Avenue. 
Assets, $809,872. Stephen Crowell, 
President ; Eugene F. Barnes, Secretary. 

Emigrant, 74 Court street. Incor- 
porated, 1863. Assets, $209,956. An- 
drew Dougherty, President ; Francis 
L. Dallon, Secretary. 

German, 92 Montrose Avenue. In- 
corporated, 1866. Assets, $1,447,168. 
John Raber, President ; Geo. S. Bishop, 
Cashier. 

Germania, 375 Fulton street. Incor- 
porated, 1867. Assets, $645,038. F. A. 
Schroeder, President ; Theo. Jiincke, 
Secretary. 

Note. — The total resources of 
uary 1, 1875, was $48,999,262. 



Greenpoint, 94 Franklin street. In- 
corporated, 1868. Assets, $571,705. 
Edw. F. Williams, President; R J. 
Whittemore, Secretary. 

Hamilton, 198 Remsen street. Incor- 
porated, 1867. Assets, $1,935. Chas. 
H. Collins, President. 

Kingg County, corner Broadway and 
Fourth street. Incorporated, 1860. 
Assets, $2,755,459. J. S. Beavers, 
President; A. B. Hodges, Secretary. 

Long Island, 342 and 344 Fulton st. 
Incorporated, 1865. Assets, $1,344,009. 
James M. Seabury, President ; Edward 
B. Fowler, Secretary. 

Mechanics', 111 Fulton street. In- 
corporated, 1871. Assets, $95,205. 
Thomas Brooks, President; Henry E. 
Hutchinson, Secretary. 

Park, corner Fulton and Oxford sts. 
Incorporated, 1868. Assets, $181,218. 
Daniel McCabe, President; R. A. Lind- 
say, Cashier. 

South Brooklyn, 160 Atlantic street. 
Incorporated, 1850. Assets„ $6 908,551. 
J. W. Green, President; Czar Dun- 
ning Secretary. 

Williamsburgh, 141 Fourth street. 

Incorporated, 1851. Assets, $11,309,- 

732. Geerge Ricard, President ; John 

Broach, Secretary. 

the sixteen Savings' Banks of Brooklyn, Jan- 



THE LONG ISLAND SAFE DEPOSIT COMPANY, 

Corner Fulton and Front Streets. 



BROOKLYN TRUST COMPANIES. 

Corner Montague and Clinton Sts. 
Chartered, 1866. Capital, $500,000. 

This Company is authorized by special charter to act as Receiver, Trustee or 
Guardian. 

Ripley Ropes, President. Chakles R. Marvin, Vice-President. 
Wm. R. Banker, Secretary. 



FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES. 

See New York and Brooklyn Fire Insurance Companies, pages 211-215. 



CHUKCHES IN BKOOKLYN. 23T 

BROOKLYN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, 

Corner Fulton Street and Gallatin Place, 

Is a flourishing institution, occupying a fine suite of rooms,where are accommoda 
tions for religious services, lecture room, library and a reading room. The 
library contains about 8,000 volumes, and the reading room is supplied with 
Quarterlies, Monthlies, Weeklies and Dailies, regularly received. 

Officers for 1876. 

, President 

David H. Cochran, L.L. D., and others, Vice-Presidents, 

William W. Wicks, Treasurer. 

John T. Adams, Recording Secretary. 

Rev. William M. Martin, Superintendent. 

A. S. Emmons, Lihrarian. 



CHURCHES IN BROOKLYN. 

BAPTIST. 

Berean (colored), Warren, near Troy avenue. 

Central, Bridge, near Myrtle avenue ; Rev. John W. Sarles. 

Central (Williamsburg), South Fifth, corner of Eighth street; Rev. Christopher 
Rhodes. 

Clinton avenue, Armory Hall, Clermont avenue, near Myrtle avenue. 

Concord (colored), Canton street, near Park avenue ; Rev. Wm. T. Dixon. 

Consolidated American Baptist Missionary Convention, 1,003 St. Mark's ave- 
nue; Rev. Rufus L. Perry. 

East Brooklyn, Bedford avenue, near Myrtle avenue ; Rev. Hiram Hutchings. 

Fifth, Broadway, corner Eleventh street (E. D.); Rev. Mr. Oakley. 

First, Nassau, corner Liberty ; Rev. Jesse B. Thomas. 

First (Williamsburg), Fifth St., corner South Fifth (E. D.); Rev. Daniel Read. 

First German, Montrose avenue, near Union av. (E. D.); Rev. J. C. Grinnell. 

German Baptist, Twenty-second street, near Third avenue ; Rev. Carl Damm. 

Gethsemane, Willoughby avenue, near Broadway ; Rev. A. Stewart Walsh. 

Greenpoint, Noble street, near Union avenue (E. D.); Rev. D. Henry Miller. 

Greenwood, Fifteenth street, corner Fourth avenue ; Rev. Albert G. Lawson. 

Hanson place, Hanson place, corner South Portland avenue ; Rev. Justin 
D. Fulton 

Herkimer street, Herkimer st., corner Troy avenue ; Rev. Henry B. Warring. 

Lee avenue, Lee avenue, near Wilson (E. D.); Rev. J. Hyatt Smith. 

Marcy avenue, Marcy avenue, corner Madison street ; Rev. Reuben Jeffrey. 

Mount Olivet (colored), Montrose avenue, near Lorimer street (E. D.); Rev. 
J. R. Young. 

Pilgrim (Lefferts Park Mission), Van Buren, near Tompkins avenue ; Rev. 
Charles C. Callen. 

Sands Street Mission, Sands street, near Gold street; Rev. John Toomath. 

Second (Williamsburg), Ainslie street, near Graham avenue (E. D.); Rev. J. 
N. Folwell. 

Sixth avenue. Sixth avenue, corner Lincoln place. 

Strong place. Strong place, corner Degraw street ; Rev. Galuska Anderson. 



238 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

Strong Place Mission, Carroll place, near Hoyt street. 

Tabernacle Mission, 208 Hamilton avenue. 

Tabernacle, Clinton, corner Third place ; Rev. Thomas Rambaut. 

Trinity, Broadway, corner Ralph avenue ; Rev. J. L. Hodge. 

Union avenue, Greenpoint ; Rev. Hughes. 

Washington avenue, Washington av., corner Gates av.; Rev. D. Moore, Jr. 

CONGREGATIONAL. 

Atlantic Avenue Mission, Atlantic avenue, corner Grand avenue. 
Bethel of Plymouth Church, 15 Hicks street ; Rev. C. M. Morton. 
Central Tabernacle, Hancock street, near Franklin av.; Rev. H. M. Scudder. 
Clinton avenue, Clinton av., corner Lafayette av.; Rev. W. Ives Budington. 
Covenant, Classon avenue, corner Baltic street. 

Grand Avenue Mission, Grand avenue, near Myrtle av. ; S. L. Parsons, Sup't. 
Lee avenue, Lee avenue, corner Hewes street ; Rev. Edward Eggleston. 
Mayflower Mission, Jay street, near Sands street. 

Mediator, Rochester avenue, corner Herkimer street ; Rev. Bishop Falkner. 
New England, South Ninth street, near Sixth street (E. D.); Rev. John H. 
Lockwood. 

Pacific street. Pacific street, corner Clove road. 

Park, Sixth avenue, corner Seventh street. 

Pilgrims, Henry street, corner Remsen street ; Rev. Richard S. Storrs, Jr. 

Plymouth, Orange, near Hicks street ; Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. 

Puritan, Lafayette avenue, corner Marcy avenue ; Rev. C. H. Everest. 

South, President, corner Court street ; Rev. Albert J. Lyman. 

Union, Elm place, near Fulton ; Rev. Joseph Wild. 

Warren Street Mission, Warren St., near Hicks ; Rev. J. H. Cullen, D.D. 

JEWISH SYNAGOGUES. 

Ahavateh Acham, Johnson avenue, near Ewen st. (E. D.) ; Isaac Hess, Rabbi. 

Beth Elohim, South First street, corner Eighth st. (E. D.); Dr. Gross, Rabbi. 

Beth Jacob, 10th street, near South Fifth street (E. D.) 

Beth Elohim, Pearl, near Concord street ; George Brandenstein, Rabbi. 

Beth Israel, Boerum, corner State street. 

Temple Israel, Green avenue, near Carlton avenue ; R. Lasker, Rabbi. 

LUTHERAN. 

German (Fifth), Noble, near Franklin street, Greenpoint ; Rev. C. O. Kaselitz. 

St. John's (E. D.), Graham avenue, corner Ten Eyck; Rev. J. Weisel. 

St. John's, Prospect avenue, near Fifth avenue ; Rev. Helmuth Sommer. 

St. Luke's, Carlton avenue, near Myrtle av. ; Rev. J. H. Baden. 

St. Mark's, Evergreen avenue, corner Jefferson ; Rev. Emile Frey. 

St. Matthew's, North Fifth street, between Fifth and Sixth streets (E. D.), 
Rev. J. H. Vosseler, 

St. Matthew's (English), Atlantic avenue, near Third avenue ; Rev. Stewart 
Hartman. 

St. Paul's, South First street, corner Ninth st. (E. D.); Rev. M. Wrage. 

St. Paul's, Columbia, near Summit street ; Rev. Robert Neumann. 

St. Peter's, Wallworth, corner De Kalb avenue ; Rev. Charles Goehling. 

Zion, Henry, near Clark street; Rev. T. W. T. Steimle. 



CHURCHES IN BROOKLYN. 239 

METHODIST EPISCOPAL. 

NORTH LONG ISLAND DISTRICT. 

Rev. C. B. Sing, Presiding Elder ; Residence, 84 Quincey street. 

Broadway Mission, Kosciusko street, n. Broadway : Rev. R. P. Christopher. 

Central South Fifth, cor. Fifth street (E. D.), Rev. B. M. Adams. 

Cook street, Cook, cor. Bushwick avenue (E, D.) ; Rev. G. H. Andrews. 

De Kalb avenue, De Kalb avenue, near Franklin avenue ; Rev. S. H. Piatt. 

Gothic, Grand, corner Ewens street (E. D.) ; Rev. W. J. Robinson. 

Grand street. Grand street, corner E wen (E. D.); Rev. C. S. Wing. 

Greenpoint, Union avenue, near Java street (E. D.) ; Rev. W. W. Clark. 

Greenpoint Tabernacle, Greenpoint; Rev. T. H. Burch. 

John Wesley, Tompkins avenue, cor. Willoughby avenue ; Rev. C. B. Ford. 

Leonard street, Conselyea, corner Leonard street (E. D.) ; Rev. S. C. Keeler. 

North Fifth street, North Fifth, near Fourth street (E. D.); Rev. C. P. 
Corner. 

Park Avenue Mission. 

Simpson, Clermont avenue, corner Willoughby avenue; Rev. W. R. Davis. 

South Second street, South Second street, near Fifth (E. D.) ; Rev. J. 
Pegg, Jr. 

South Third st.. South Third (corner Union av., E. D.); Rev. J. Simmons. 

St. John's, Bedford avenue, corner Wilson street (E. D.) ; Rev. H. W. 
Warren. 

Summerfield, Washington avenue, corner Green avenue ; Rev. A. H. Hyatt. 

Tompkins avenue, Tompkins avenue, corner Madison ; Rev. F. Brown. 

SOUTH LONG ISLAND DISTRICT. 

Rev. C Fletcher, Presiding Elder. 

Carroll Park, Rev. W. W. Bowdish. 

Eighteenth street. Eighteenth street, near Fifth avenue ; Rev. P. C. Putney. 

Embury, Herkimer street, near Schenectady avenue ; Rev. C. E. Miller. 

First place. First place, corner Henry street ; Rev. J. W. Barnhart. 

Fleet street, Fleet, corner Lafayette ; Rev. Wm. C. Steele. 

Green avenue. Green avenue, near Tompkins avenue ; Rev. F. M. Mare. 

Hanson place, Hanson place, corner St. Felix ; Rev. G. E. Reed. 

Janes, Reid avenue, near Gates avenue ; Rev. J. H. Stransbury. 

Johnson street, Johnson, corner Jay street ; Rev. J. L. Hall. 

Nathan Bangs, Clove road, corner Butler street. 

New York avenue. New York avenue, corner Herkimer street ; Rev. G. L. 
Westgate. 

Nostrand avenue, Nostrand avenue, near Quincy street ; Rev. C. M. Griffin. 

Pacific street, Pacific, near Clinton ; Rev. A. S. Hunt. 

Sands street. Sands, near Fulton street ; Rev. George Taylor. 

Scandinavian Chapel, Dean street, near Fifth avenue ; Rev. A. Erickson. 

Seventh avenue. Seventh avenue, corner Butler street ; Rev. E. J. Haynes. 

Swedish, Rev. A. Erickson. 

Warren street, Warren, near Smith street ; Rev. J. Parker. 

Washington street, Washington street, near Tillary street ; Rev. D. A. Good- 
sell 

William Street Bethel Mission, William, near Van Brunt ; Rev. C. K. Fanning. 

York street, York, corner Gold street ; Rev. J. L. Gilder. 



240 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

METHODIST EPISCOPAL (COLORED.) 
Bethel, Schenectady avenue, corner Dean ; Rev. Deaton Dorrell. 
First Bethel, Frost, near Lorimer street (E. D.) ; Rev. Deaton Dorrell. 
Fleet street Bethel, Fleet street, near Myrtle avenue ; Rev. Robert Wayman. 
Wesleyan, Bridge, near Myrtle avenue ; Rev. Wm. H. W. Winder. 
Zion, South Third, corner Eleventh street (E. D.) ; Rev. Nathaniel Stubbs. 

METHODIST EPISCOPAL (GERMAN.) 

First German, Stagg, corner Lorimer street ; Rev. H. Ka,stendick. 
Wyckoff street, Wyckoff street, near Smith ; Rev. C. F. Grimm. 

METHODIST NON-EPISCOPAL. 

First, Grand, near Fifth street (E. D.) 

Second, Graham avenue, near Withers street (E. D.) ; Rev. A. J. Conklin. 
Third, Evergreen avenue, near Myrtle avenue ; Rev. J. Smith, D. D. 
Primitive, Park avenue, near Canton street ; Rev. Fred. Bell. 

PRESBYTERIAN. 

Ainslie street, Ainslie, corner Ewen street (E. D.) ; Rev. J. M. Buchanan. 

Bethlehem Mission, 631 Fulton street ; T. Brett, superintendent. 

Brooklyn Tabernacle, Schermerhorn, near Nevins ; Rev. T. DeWittTalmage. 

Calvary, North Fifth street, near Fifth (E. D.) ; Rev. Mr. Wilson. 

City Park Mission, Concord, near Hudson avenue ; Rev. Charles Wood. 

Classon avenue, Classon avenue, cor Monroe street ; Rev. Joseph T. Duryea. 

First, Henry, near Clark street ; Rev. Norman Seaver. 

First, Remsen, corner Clinton street ; Rev. H. J. Van Dyke. 

First, (Reformed), Duffield near Myrtle avenue ; Rev. Nevin Woodside. 

First, Williamsburg, S. Fourth, corner Sixth street, (E. D.) 

Franklin Avenue, Franklin av. , near Myrtle avenue ; Rev. Sam'l P. Halsey. 

French, 398 Fulton street ; Rev. F. B. Richard. 

Fort Greene, Cumberland, near Myrtle avenue ; Rev. A. McLelland. 

Gates Avenue, (closed). Gates avenue, corner Irving place. 

German, Leonard, corner Stagg street, (E. D.) . Rev. John Neander. 

Greenpoint, Noble street, near Union place ; Rev. William H. Taylor. 

Hopkins street (German), Hopkins, near Throop av. ; Rev. John Menry. 

Lafayette Avenue, Lafayette av. , cor. S. Oxford st. ; Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler. 

Memorial, Warren st., near Fifth avenue ; Rev. Thomas Crowther. 

Reformed, Ninth, near Hope, (E. D.) 

Reformed, Lafayette avenue, corner Ryerson street ; Rev. John H. Boggs. 

Ross Street, (E. D.), Ross st., bet. Bedford av. and Lee av. ; Rev. Mr. Crosby. 

Second, Clinton, near Fulton street ; Rev. A. Crosby. 

Second Reformed (Williamsburg), S. Second, n. Fourth ; Rev. Sam'l Moffett. 

Second United, Atlantic avenue, cor. Bond street. 

Siloam (col'd). Prince street, near M3a-tle avenue ; Rev. A. N. Freeman. 

South, Clinton street, corner Amity street ; Rev. Alexander Reed. 

South Third street, S. Third st., cor. Fifth st., (E. D.); Rev. John D. Wells. 

Tompkins Avenue, Tompkins avenue, corner McDonough. 

Throop Avenue, Throop avenue, cor. Willoughby av. ; Rev. L. R. Foote. 

Westminster, Clinton, near First place ; Rev. J. Clement French. 



CHUKCHES IN BROOKLYN. 241 

PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL. 
All Saints, Fifth avenue, near Ninth street ; Rev. C. H. Bixby. 
Ascension (Greenpoint), Kent av., near Union av. ; Rev. T. W. Haskins. 
Atonement, Fifth avenue, cor. Seventeeth street; Rev. William Hyde. 
Calvary, S. Ninth, corner Eighth street, (E. D.) ; Rev. Francis Peck. 
Christ, Bedford avenue, near Clymer street, (E. D.);Rev. Alfred Partrige. 
Christ, Clinton, corner Harrison street ; Rev. L. W. Bancroft. 
Church of our Saviour, Clinton, corner Luquer street. 
Cutler Memorial, in Old St. Ann's, "Washington street, near Sands street. 
Emanuel, President St., corner Smith; Rev. H. B. Walbridge. 
Evangelist, Bergen street, near Sixth avenue. 

Good Shepherd, McDonough, near Stuyvesant av. ; Rev. Henry B. Cornwell. 
Grace, Brooklyn Heights, Grace court, cor. Hicks st. ; Rev. Wm. A. Snively. 
Grace Chapel, High, near Gold street; Rev. W. M. William. 
Grace, Conselyea, near Lorimer street (E. D.); Rev. William S. Chad well 
Guion, Greene avenue, near Marcy avenue; Rev. F. C. Carter. 
Holy Trinity Mission, 120 Myrtle avenue ; Rev. William Short. 
Holy Trinity, Clinton street, cor. Montague street ; Rev. Charles H. Hall. 
Mediator, Ormond place, cor. Jefferson street; Rev. T. F. Cornell. 
Messiah, Greene avenue, corner Clermont avenue ; Rev. Charles R. Baker. 
Redeemer, Church of The, Pacific St., cor. Fourth av. ; Rev.Wm, A. Leonard. 
Red Hook Mission Chapel; Rev. J. Lee. 

Reformation, Gates avenue, near Classon avenue; Rev. John S. Bacchus. 
St. Ann's, Clinton st, corner Livingston street ; Rev. Noah Hunt Schenck. 
St. Barnabas, Bushwick avenue, near Kossuth place; Rev. Henry E. Hovey. 
St. James, Hall street, corner Lafayette avenue ; Rev. Charles W. Homer. 
St. John's, St. Johns' place, corner Seventh avenue; Rev. T. E. Pycott. 
St. Luke's, Clinton avenue, near Fulton street ; Rev. Jacob W. Diller. 
St. Mark's, Adelphi street, bet. Willoughby av. and DeKalb av. ; Rev. W. T. 
Fitch. 
St. Mark's, Fourth, cor. S. Fifth street, (E. D.); Rev. Samuel Haskins. 
St. Mary's, Classon avenue, near Myrtle avenue ; Rev. Daniel V. M. Johnson. 
St. Matthew's, Throop av., cor. Pulaski avenue; Rev. Charles S. WilHams. 
St. Paul's, Carroll street, near Hicks street; Rev. T. S. Drowne. 
St. Paul's, Penn street, corner Marcy avenue, (E. D.): Rev. N. Maynard. 
St. Peter's, State street, near Bond street; Rev. John A. Paddock. 
St. Peter's, Chapel, Wyckoff street, near Bond street; Rev. William Burnett. 
St. Stephen's, Patchen avenue, corner Jefferson ; Rev. J. A. Nock. 
St. Thomas' Chapel, Bushwick av., cor. Cooper av. ; Rev. Cornelius L. Twing. 

REFORMED CHURCH. 

Bedford avenue Bedford avenue, cor. Clymer (E. D.) ; Rev. E. S. Porter. 
Bethany Chapel, Hudson avenue, near Myrtle av. ; Rev. John Y. Griswold. 
Centennial Mission, Third avenue, cor. Wyckoff, 
East Bedford avenue, cor. Madison street ; Rev. J. Halsted Carroll. 
First (Brooklyn) Joralemon street, near Court street. 

First (Williamsburg), Bushwick avenue, near N. Second (E. D.) ; Rev. 
Stephen H. Meeker. 
German, New Brooklyn ; Rev. C. F. C. Luckow. 
Greenpoint, Kent avenue, tear Union avenue ; Rev. Mr. Francis. 



242 NEW YOEK AS IT IS. 

Heights Church, on Pierrepont street, near Monroe place ; Rev. David Inglis. 

Middle, Harrison, cor. Tompkins place ; Rev. E. P. IngersoU. 

North, Clermont avenue, near Myrtle avenue ; Rev, Alexander R. Thompson. 

South B-ushwick, Bush wick av., near De Kalb av. ; Rev. George D. Hults. 

South Gowanus, Third avenue, cor. Fourth street ; Rev. John H. Manning. 

Twelfth street ; Rev. Nehemiah P. Pierce. 

Union avenue (German), Union avenue, cor. Scholes st. ; Rev. J. M. Wagner. 



ROMAN CATHOLIC. 
Right Rev. John Loughlin, Bishop. * 

All Saints, Throop avenue, cor. Thornton street ; Rev. A. Arnold. 

Annunciation B. V. M. (German), N. Fifth, cor. Seventh street (E. D.) ; Rev. 
John Hauptman. 

Assumption of The B. V. M. , York st. , cor. Jay st. ; Rev. William Keegan. 

Holy Trinity (German) Montrose avenue, near Ewen st. ; Rev. Michael May. 

Immaculate Conception of V. B. M., Leonard, cor. Maujer street ; Rev. John 
R. McDonald. 

Nativity, Classon avenue, cor. Madison ; Rev. M. J. Moran. 

Our Lady of Mercy, Debevoise, near De Kalb avenue ; Rev. James McElroy. 

Our Lady of Victory, Throop avenue, bet. McDonough and Macon street ; 
Rev. P. Creighton. 

Sacred Heart, Clermont avenue, near Park avenue ; Rev. Thomas McGivern. 

St. Alphonsus (German), Kent, near Union place ; Rev. W. Guhl. 

St. Anne's, Front street, cor. Gold street ; Rev. Bartholomew Gleeson. 

St. Anthony's, India street (E. D.) ; Rev. William Lane. 

St. Augustine, Fifth avenue, cor. Bergen ; Rev. Louis Rhatigan. 

St. Barnard's Chapel (German), Hamilton avenue, near Hicks street ; Rev. 
John Ammann. 

St. Benedict (German), Fulton st., near Ralph av. ; Rev, Michael Koehren. 

St. Bonifacius (German) Duffield, near Willoughby st. ; Rev. Peter De Berge. 

St. Cecilias, Herbert, cor. N. Henry street (E. D.) ; Rev. Florence McCarthy. 

St. Charles Borromeo, Sidney place, cor. Livingston street ; Rev. Francis J. 
Freel, D.D. 

St. Francis, Putnam avenue, near Bedford av. ; Rev. Nicholas Butler, O. S. B. 

St. Francis De Sales, 1575 Broadway (E. D.) ; Rev. H. Leneuf. 

St. James' Cathedral, Jay, cor. Chapel ; Rt. Rev. John Loughlin, Bishop, 
Very Rev. John F. Turner. 

St. John's, Fifth avenue, cor. Twenty-first street ; Rev. James O'Beirne. 

St. John the Baptist, Willoughby avenue, bet. Lewis avenue and Stuyvesant 
avenue ; Rev. J. Malony, C. M. 

St. Joseph's, Pacific street, near Vanderbilt avenue ; Rev. Edward Corcoran. 

St. Leonard of Paul Maurice, Hamburgh avenue, cor. Jefferson (E. D.) ; Rev. 
John J. Raber. 

St. Louis (French), McKibben, near Leonard street ; Rev. Julius JoUon. 

St. Mary's Star of the Sea, Court, cor. Luquer street ; Rev. Eugene Cassidy. 

St. Michael's, Fourth av., cor. Forty-second street; Rev. J. O'Connell, D.D. 

St. Nicholas (German), Powers, cor, Oliver (E. D.); Rev. J. Peine. 

St. Patrick's, Kent avenue, cor. Willoughby avenue ; Rev. T. Taaffe. 

St. Paul's, Court, cor. Congress street; Rev. R. J. Maguire. 



CHUKCHES IN BEOOKLTN. 243 

St. Peter's, Hicks, cor. Warren street; Eev. Joseph Fransioli. 

St. Peter's and St. Paul's, Second, n. S. Second st. (E D.); Rev. S. Malone. 

St. Stephen's, Carroll, n. Hicks; Rev. Edward O'Reilly. 

St. Theresa's, Classon avenue, cor. Butler street ; Rev. Joseph McNamee 

St. Vincent De Paul, N. Sixth st., n. Fifth (E. D.); Rev. Martin Carrol. 

Transfiguration, Marcy avenue; Rev. John Fagen. 

Visitation of B. V. M., Ewen, n. Van Brunt; Rev. Timothy OTarrell. 

UNITARIAN. 

Church of the Saviour, Pierrepont, n. Monroe place; Rev. Alfred P. Putnam. 
New Chapel, Clinton, cor. Congress ; Rev. J. W. Chadwick. 
Third, Classon av., cor. Lefferts; Rev. S. H. Camp. 

UNIVERSALISTS. 

Centenary Chapel, Nostrand avenue, near DeKalb. 

Our Father, Church of, Clermont av., n. Atlantic av. ; Rev. H. R. Ney. 

Reconciliation, Noble street, near Franklin street. 

All Souls' Church, Fourth, cor. S. Third st. (E. D;) Rev. A. Gunnison. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

All Souls, Episcopal, Pierrepont, cor. Clinton st. ; Rev. George B. Porteous. 

Our Mission, 416 Adelphi street. 

Brooklyn Society of New Jerusalem, Monroe place, cor. Clark street; Rev. 
J. C. Ager. 

Church of the Incarnation, 266 Cumberland; Rev. W. H. Reid. 

Church of the People, State, n. Hoyt street; Rev. Hugh Pentecost. 

Columbia Mission, Columbia, n. Summit; Rev. Joseph West. 

English Evangelical, Clinton, n. Fulton ; Rev. T. B. Richard. 

Free Methodist, Third avenue, cor. Twenty-first street; Rev. Mr. Gould. 

Friends' Meeting-house (Orthodox), Washington av. , cor. Lafayette av. 

German Evangelical, Schermerhorn, n. Court street. 

Seaman's Friend Society, President, n. Hamilton avenue; Rev. E. O. Bates. 

Tabernacle Free College, Schermerhorn, n. Nevins. 

The Gospel, Lincoln pi., n. Sixth avenue; Rev. Joseph B. Cleaver. 

Union Chapel, 106 N. Third street (E. D.); Rev. Wm. H. Johnson. 

Union Methodist Mission, 257 Grand street (E. D.) 

United Brethren (Protestant Episcopal Moravian), Jay, n. Myrtle avenue; 
Rev. Mr. Schultz. 



CEMETERIES OF BROOKLYN SUBURBS. 
GREENWOOD, the oldest and most noted of all the New York cemeteries, is 
situated on Gowanus Heights, Brooklyn, and about two and one half miles from 
South Ferry, and contains 413 acres of land, purchased of over 60 different 
owners. The surface has been graded at immense expense ; the entrance ways 
are marked with rich adornments, and the whole grounds are encircled with an 
iron fence. It contains 17 miles of carriage roads, and 15 miles of foot-paths, 
most of which, covered with concrete, are always free from dust, mud, and 



244 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

weeds. The grounds are adorned with finely-wrought vaults, and with over 
2,000 monuments, some of which have cost large fortunes. The monuments of 
Charlotte Canda, De Witt Clinton, D. H. Lewis, and Col. Vosburgh are among 
the most imposing. About 185,000 interments have been made in these grounds, 
and the annual income from the sale of lots exceeds $300,000. 

Cypress Hill is situated on Long Island, north of the Brookljrn and Jamaica 
turnpike, is partly in Kings and partly in Queens Counties, and about five miles 
from the ferry near Peck Slip. The grounds comprise about 400 acres, con- 
taining large natural forests. The views from the elevations in this cemetery 
are very extensive. Brooklyn, New York, Jersey City, and the Palisades, to 
the west and north are spread out with panoramic grandeur ; while to the south, 
as far as the eye can extend, roll the blue waves of the Atlantic, bounded by 
the horizon. Over 100,000 interments have been made here since 1848, includ- 
ing the remains of 4,060 soldiers of the late war. 

The Cemetery op the Evergreens is situated three miles east of Willims- 
burgh. It is a large and beautiful plot, with variegated surface and scenery. 

Calvary was laid out in August, 1848, at Newtown, Long Island, and con- 
tains 75 acres. It is the consecrated burial-ground of Roman Catholics, 200,000 
bodies having already been interred here. 



STREET RAILROADS IN BROOKLYN. 

Brooklyn City Railroad Company. 
ROUTES: 

East New York Line.— Fulton Ferry to East New York, via Fulton street. 
Returning by same route. 

Flatbush Line.— Fulton Ferry to Flatbush, via Fulton street and Flatbush 
avenue. Returning by same route. 

Flushing Avenue Line.— Fulton Ferry to Van Cott Avenue, via Fulton 
and Sands streets, Hudson and Flushing avenues, Broadway and Graham av- 
enue, to Van Cott. Returning by same route. 

FuRMAN Street Line.— Fulton Ferry to Hamilton Ferry, via Furman, Col- 
umbia and Sacket streets. Returning by same route. 

Gates Avenue Line, — Fulton Ferry to Broadway, via Fulton street, and 
Greene, Franklin and Gates avenues. Returning by same route. 

Greenpoint Line, No. 1. — Fulton Ferry to Greenpoint, via Fulton street. 
Myrtle, Classon and Kent avenues, and First, Franklin and Commercial streets. 
Returning by same route. 

Greenpoint Line, No, 2. — Fulton Ferry to Greenpoint, via Fulton street. 
Myrtle, Washington and Kent avenues, and First, Franklin and Commercial 
streets. Returning by same route. 

Greenwood Line, No. 1.— Fulton Ferry to Greenwood, via Fulton and 
Court streets, Hamilton and Third avenues and Twenty-fourth street. Return- 
ing by same route. 



NEW YORK AND BROOKLYN BRIDGE COMPANY. 



245 



Greenwood Line, No. 2.— Fulton Ferry to Greenwood, via Fulton street 
Flatbush and Third avenues and Twenty-fourth st. Returning by same route! 

Hamilton Avenue Line.— Hamilton Ferry to Fort Hamilton via "Hamilton 
and Third avenues. Returning by same route. 

Myrtle Avenue Line.— Fulton Ferry to Broadway, via Fulton street and 
Myrtle avenue. Returning by same route. 

Putnam Avenue Line.— Via Fulton and Putnam avenues, and Halsey street. 

The above Company controls twelve routes, extending through 43 miles of 
streets and avenues. 

The building Street Railroads in Brookljrn commenced in 1855, now extend- 
ing to almost every section of the city. 

railroad lines, 1876. 



New Willia/msburgh and Flatbush Line. 
Brooklyn and Coney Island Line. 
Grand Street and Newtown Line. 
Brooklyn Cross-Town, to Hunter's Point. 
North Second Street and Middle Village. 
Prospect Park and Coney Island. 
Van Brunt Street and Erie Basin. 



Hoyt, Sackett and Bergen Street Line. 
The Broadway, to East New York. 
Grand Street, Prospect Park and Flat- 
hush. 
South Fourth Street and Bushwick Line. 
Brooklyn and Newtown Line. 
Atlantic Avenue and Greenwood Line. 



BROOKLYN ELEVATED RAILROAD COMPANY. 

The Directors announce that they will begin the construction of the road be- 
fore June 1, 1876, as their charter requires. The route will be from Washington 
and Sands streets, thence through York street to Hudson avenue, to Park avenue 
Grand avenue, Lexington avenue to Marion street and Broadway, and thence to 
East New York and Woodhaven, L, I. 



Extract from the Report of the Board of Trustees of the 
NEW YORK AND BROOKLYN BRIDGE COMPANY— 1876. 

THE original ESTIMATE OF THE COST OF THE BRIDGE. 

The first estimate was made in 1867, by the late John A. Roebling, Esq., its 
designer and first engineer, for a structure 80 feet wide and 130 feet above 
high water, exclusive of the land, as follows : 

Suspended superstructure $2,787,972 

Anchorage, including excavation, plates and chains 795, 424 

Foundation of Brooklyn tower 355,400 

Foundation of New York tower — 

Pile foundation $899,087 00 

Brick foundation 727,294 32 

The latter was adopted 727,294 

Two towers 1,409,820 

Approaches 742,516 

Engines and machinery 40, 000 

Toll-houses and gateways 20,000 



246 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

Engineering 150,000 

Contingencies 299,781 

To tlie foregoing sums, amounting to $7,328,207 32, was added eight 
per cent, for additional width to 85 feet, and height to 135 feet, as 
required for the latter, before commencing the bridge, by the Sec- 
retary of War, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1869 __ 586,250 



Total for structure $7,914,457 

ESTIMATE FOR LAND. 

For land in New York then yet to be taken $2,401,978 00 

For land in Brooklyn.. 520,394 00 



Making in both cities $2,922,372 00 

There had been taken previously land not embraced in the forego- 
ing amount, costing 735,478 83 

Making the total estimate of land required for the purpose of the 
bridge $3,657,850 83 

Which sum, added to $7,914,457 for the structure, made the entire 
cost of the bridge as first estimated 11,572,287 00 

EXPENDITURES. 

The total expenditures, January 1, 1876, were $5,954,910 00 

Amount still wanted to complete the structure, &c 7,217,030 00 

WHOLE COST OF THE BRIDGE AS NOW ESTIMATED. 

Amount already expended $5,954,910 00 

Existing liabilities for materials delivered and 

charges, as per schedule B 92,913 00 



Total 6,047,823 00 

Less cash and materials on hand 145, 278 00 



Whole amount expended $5,902,545 00 

To be expended as above 7,217,030 00 

Total $13,119,575 00 

"In conclusion, I may add that if the means be promptly furnished the bridge 
can be entirely finished and open for public travel, and begin to be remunerative 
in the Summer or Fall of 1879. True economy, in the prosecution of the work, 
is to push it forward, with all the speed that a due regard to its proper construc- 
tion will permit It will open a new thoroughfare for half a million of people to 
the centre of business and intelligence in this great Metropolis of the nation — 
where it is already fixed by the erection of public buildings, both national and 
municipal, and by grand edifices devoted by private enterprise to financial, tele- 
graphic and journalistic purposes. It will practically unite the two cities, and 
contribute to the convenience, comfort and safety of that portion of the commu- 
nity which will use it in their daily avocations, and be a worthy monument of 
the foresight as well as the greatness of New York. If made perfectly free for 



AVENUES AND STREETS IN BROOKLYN. 247 

travel it will yet be self-sustaining, and without expense in the future for its 
maintenance, by receipts of the railway, which will carry over it, for a trifling 
charge, such as may be disposed to avail themselves of it ; while the entire cost 
to the City of New York will not, in any possible contingency, including all the 
" vast sums " already contributed, amount to $5,000,000. 
Respectfully submitted, 

HENRY C. MURPHY. 

President Board of Trustees." 



THE BLACKWELL'S ISLAND BRIDGE. 

The Bridge which it is proposed .to lay across the East River at Blackwell's 
Island will be commenced early in the Spring, (1876,) and the calculation is that 
it will be completed in the course of two years. Its New York end will be at 
Third Avenue and Seventy-seventh Street. It will be carried from this point to 
the East River, a distance of 3,000 feet ; thence across the River to the Island, 
700 feet, which will be its largest span. It will then pass across the Island and 
over the River to the Long Island side. This latter span will be nearly 600 feet. 
On this side the approach will begin on Astoria Heights. Its entire length will 
be a mile and three-quarters. The Bridge will be of iron and of the truss order; 
and in consequence of the heights of the span above high water, a draw will be 
unnecessary. A road for steam cars, besides that for the ordinary traffic, will be 
one of the features of the structure. Its estimated cost is $2,000,000. 



AVENUES AND STREETS IN BROOKLYN. 

Aberdeen street, from Broadway, east to Evergreen Cemetery. 

Adams street, from East River, south to Fulton street. 

Adams street (E.D.), from Broadway, northeast to Evergreen avenue. 

Adelphi street, from Flushing avenue, south to Atlantic avenue. 

Agate street, from Grand street, south to Mauger street. 

Ainslie street, from Eighth street, east to Bushwick avenue. 

Albany avenue, from Decatur, south to City line. 

Amity street, from East River, east to Court street. 

Amos street, from Kingsland avenue, east to Newtown Creek. 

Ann street, from Commercial street, northwest to Newtown Creek. 

Anthony street, from Morgan avenue, east to Newtown Creek. 

Apollo street, from Meeker avenue, north to Newtown Creek. 

Arlington place, from Halsey street, south to Fulton street. 

Ash street, from Union place, east to Oakland street. 

Atlantic avenue, fi'om East River, southeast to City Line. 

Atlantic Dock, bounded by Com. wharf, Clinton wharf. Buttermilk Chan- 
nel and India wharf. 

Auburn place, from Canton street, southeast to North Portland avenue. 

Bainbridge street, from Yates avenue, ea t to Broadway. 

Baltic street, from East River, east to Fifth avenue. 

Bancroft place, from Herkimer street, southwest to Atlantic avenue. 

Banker street, from Union avenue, north to Franklin street. 

Banzett street, from Maspeth avenue, north to Beadel street. 

Barbarine Court,- from Lawrence place, west half block. 



NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



Bartlett street, 
Bay street, 
Bayard street, 
Beach place, 
Beadel street, 
Beaver street, 
Bedford street, 
Bedford avenue, 
Belvidere street, 
Bennett street, 
Benton street, 
Bergen street, 
Bergen Point, 
Bleeker street, 
Boerum street, 
Boerum place, 
Bogart street, 
Bolivar street, 
Bompjes HookWh'f , 
Bond street, 
Bowen street, 
Box street. 
Brant street, 
Braxton street, 
Bremen street, 
Brevoort place. 
Bridge street, 
Bridgerd street, 
Bridgewater street, 
Broadway 
Brooklyn avenue, 
Broome street, 
Bryant street, 
Buffalo avenue. 
Bullion street. 
Burr place. 
Bush street, 
Bushwick avenue, 
Butler street, 
Calhoun street, 
Calyer street, 
Cambridge place, 
Canal street. 
Canton street, 
Carlton avenue, 
Carroll street, 
Carroll Park, 
Catharine street. 
Cedar street, 
Central avenue. 
Central place, 



from Flushing avenue, northeast to Broadway. 

from Otsego street, southeast to Gowanus Bay. 

from Union avenue, east to Humboldt street. 

from Degraw street, southwest to Sackett street, 

from Kingsland avenue, east to Newtown Creek. 

from Flushing avenue, southeast to Bushwick avenue. 

from Raymond street, southeast to Division street. 

from Division avenue, southeast and south to City Line. 

from Broadway, northeast to Beaver street. 

from Kingsland avenue, east to Newtown Creek. 

from Kingsland avenue, east to Newtown Creek. ' 

from Court street, east to City Line. 

foot of 48th and 49th streets. 

from Bushwick avenue, northeast to City Line. 

from Broadwa}^ east to Bogart street. 

from Fulton street, south to Bergen street. 

from Flushing avenue, north to Meadow street. 

from Fleet street, east to Canton street. 

from Clinton street, northwest to Otsego street. 

from Fulton street, south to Canal street. 

from Columbia, northwest to Conover street. 

from Commercial street, east to Oakland street. 

from Paidge avenue, northeast to Newtown Creek. 

from 1st avenue, southeast to City Line. 

from Bushwick avenue, north to Flushing avenue. 

from Atlantic avenue, east to Bedford avenue. 

from East River, south to Fulton street. 

from Sands street, southeast to Navy street. 

from Meeker avenue, northwest to Front street. 

from East River to City Line. 

from Fulton street, south to City Line. 

from Graham avenue, southeast to Humboldt street. 

from Otsego street, southeast to Gowanus Bay. 

from Fulton street, south to City Line. 

from Kingsland avenue, east to Newtown Creek, 

from Prospect st, bet. Bushwick av. and Bremar, s i block. 

from Dwight street, southeast to Smith street, 

from Skillman av. , south and southeast to Evergreen Cem. 

from Court, southeast and east to City Line. 

from Morgan avenue, east to Stewart avenue 

from East River, east to Sutton street. 

from Green avenue, south to Fulton street. 

from foot Bond street, runs east and west 1-J- blocks. 

from Flushing avenue, south to Willoughby street. 

from Flushing avenue, south to Flatbush avenue. 

from Hamilton avenue, southeast to City Line. ^ 

bounded by Court, Smith, President and Carroll streets. 

from Grand street, north to Metropolitan avenue. 

from Bushwick avenue, northeast to Central avenue. 

from Flushing avenue, southeast to Evergreen Cemetery. 

from Greene avenue, southeast to Grove street. 



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Centre street, 
Chapel street, 
Charles street, 
Charles place, 
Charlick street, 
Chauncey street, 
Cheever place. 
Cherry street. 
Chestnut street. 
Church street. 
City Park, 
Clark street, 
Classon avenue. 
Clay street, 
Clermont avenue, 
Clinton street, 
Clinton avenue, 
Clinton wharf, 
Clymer street. 
Coles street. 
College place, 
Columbia street, 
Columbia Heights, 
Columbia place, 
Columbia wharf, 
Columbus place. 
Commerce street. 
Commercial street, 
Commercial wharf. 
Concord street, 
Concord place. 
Congress street, 
Conover street, * 
Conselyea street, 
Conway street, 
Cook street. 
Cooper street. 
Cooper place, 
Cornelia street, 
Cornell's alley. 
Court street, 
Covert street. 
Covert avenue. 
Cranberry street, 
Cross street. 
Crown street, 
Cuba street, 
Cumberland street, 
Curran square. 
Cypress avenue. 
Dean street. 



from Columbia, southeast to Gowanus Canal. 

from Jay street, east to Bridge street. 

from York street, south to Sands street. 

E. D. from Myrtle avenue, north -J block. 

from Front street, northeast to Newtown Creek. 

from Fulton street, east to Broadway. 

from Harrison street, southwest to Degraw street. 

from Vandervoort avenue, east to Newtown Creek. 

from Bushwick avenue, northeast to City Line. 

from Columbia street, southeast to Smith. 

bounded by Flushing av., Navy, Park av. and Canton st. 

from Columbia Heights, east to Fulton street. 

from Kent av., south and southwest to Washington avenue. 

from Commercial street, east to Paidge avenue. 

from Flushing avenue to Atlantic avenue. 

from Fulton street, southwest to Gowanus Bay. 

from Flushing avenue, south to Atlantic avenue. 

Atlantic dock, from Commercial to North pier. 

from Wallabout canal, northeast to Lee avenue. 

from Columbia street, southeast to Henry street. 

from Love lane, northeast half block. 

from Atlantic avenue, south to Gowanus Bay. 

from Fulton street, south to Pierrepont street. 

from Joralemon street, south to Atlantic avenue. 

foot of Columbia street. 

from Herkimer street, southwest to Atlantic avenue. 

from Columbia street, northwest to Conover street. 

from Dupont, northeast to Union place. 

Atlantic dock from India wharf, south to William street. 

from Fulton street, east to Navy street. 

from Concord street, between Prince and Hudson streets. 

from East River, east to Court street. 

from Hamilton avenue, southwest to New York Bay. 

from Union avenue, east to Humboldt street. 

from Broadway, northeast to Evergreen Cemetery. 

from Broadway, east to Bogart street. 

from Broadway, northeast to City Line. 

from Herkimer street, southwest to Atlantic avenue. 

from Broadway, northeast to City Line. 

from Gold street, east to Green lane. 

from Fulton street, south to Gowanus Bay. 

from Broadway, northeast to City Line. ^ 

from Seneca avenue, southeast to City Line. 

from Columbia Heights, east to Fulton street. 

from Kent avenue, west to Wallabout Channel. 

from Washington avenue, southeast and east to City Line. 

from Otsego, southeast to Court street. 

from Flushing avenue, south to Atlantic avenue. 

junction of Flatbush av., Raymond st. and Hanson place. 

from Johnson avenue, southeast to City Line. 

from Court street to City Line. 



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NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



Debevoise street, from Broadway, east to Bushwick avenue. 

Debevoise place, from Fleet street, south to DeKalb avenue. 

Decatur street, from Tompkins avenue, east to Broadway. 

Degraw street, from East River, southeast to City Line. 

DeKalb avenue, from Fulton street, east to Broadway. 

DeKalb place, from Broadway, northeast to Bushwick avenue. 

Delevan street, from Columbia street, northwest to Van Brunt. 

Delmonico place, from Flushing avenue, southeast to Park avenue. 

Dennet place, from Luqueer street, south to Nelson street. 

Devoe street, from Union avenue, east to Morgan avenue. 

Diamond street, from Van Cott avenue, north to Greenpoint avenue. 

Dick street, from Commercial, northwest to Newtown Creek. 

Dickinson street, from Morgan avenue, east to Newtown Creek. 

Dikeman street, from Otsego, northwest to New York Bay. 

Ditmars street, from Broadway, northeast to Myrtle avenue. 

Division street, from Canton, southwest to Myrtle avenue. 

Division avenue, from East River, east to Broadway. 

Division place, from Kingsland avenue, east to Newtown Creek. 

Dixon's alley, from York street, south to Sands street. 

Dobbin street, from North Fifteenth street, to Calyer street. 

Dock street, frbm East River, south to Front street. 

Dodsworth street, from Broadway, northeast to Bushwick avenue. 

Doughty street, from Furman street, east to Hicks street. 

Douglass street, from Court street, southeast to City Line. 

Downing street, from Quincy street, south to Fulton street. 

Duck street, from Paidge avenue, northeast to Newtown Creek. 

Duffleld street, from Nassau street, south to Fulton street. 

Duffield terrace, east side Duffield street, near Johnson street. 

Dunham place, from Broadway, northeast to South Sixth street. 

Dupont street, from East River, east to Paidge avenue. 

Duryea street, from Broadway, northeast to City Line. 

Dwight street, from Columbia street, southwest to Elizabeth street. 

Eagle street, from East River, east to Paidge avenue., 

Eckford street, from NewtOAvn, north to Greenpoint avenue. 

Eldert street, from Broadway, northeast to City Line. 

Elizabeth street, from Otsego street, northwest to New York Bay. 

Elizabeth place, from Fulton street, southwest to Doughty street. • 

Ellery street, from Nostrand avenue, east to Beaver street. 

Elm street, from Bushwick avenue, northeast to City I^ine. 

Elm place, from Fulton street, southwest to Livingston street. 

Emery street, from Paidge avenue, north to Newtown Creek. 

Emmett street, from Atlantic avenue, south to Amity street. 

Evans street, from Hudson avenue, east to Navy Yard. 

Eve street, from Commercial street, northwest to Newtown Creek. 

Evergreen avenue, from Cook street, southeast to Evergreen Cemetery. 

Ewen street, from Broadway, north to Newtown Creek. 

Fair street, from Prince, east to Fleet place. 

Fairfax street, from Elizabeth street, northeast to City Line. 

Fayette street, from Broad wa3\ northeast to Beaver street. 

Fellows place, from Herkimer street to Atlantic avenue. 

Ferris street, from William, southwest to N. Y. Bay. 



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261 



Ferry place, 
Fillmore place, 
Fiske place, 
Flatbush avenue. 
Fleet street, 
Fleet alley. 
Fleet place, 
Flint street. 
Flood's alley, 
Floyd street, 
FlusMng avenue, 
Forrest street, 
Fort Green place, 
Franklin street, 
Franklin avenue, 
Franklin place. 
Freeman street. 
Front street. 
Front street, E. D., 
Frost street, 
Fulton street, 
Fulton place, 
Furman street, 
Furman avenue, 
Gallatin place. 
Garden street. 
Garden place, 
Gardner avenue, 
Garnet street. 
Garrison street, 
Gates avenue. 
Gem street, 
George street, 
Gerry street. 
Gold street, 
Gothic alley, 
Grace court, 
Graham street, 
Graham avenue, 
Grand street. 
Grand avenue. 

Granite street, 
Grattan street, 
Greene street, 
Greene avenue, 
Green lane, 
Greenpoint avenue, 
Grinnell street. 
Grove street. 
Grove place. 



from Hamilton avenue, northeast to Sackett street 

from Fifth street, southeast to Sixth street. 

from Carroll street, southwest to Macomb street 

from Fulton street, south to City Line. 

from Hudson avenue, southwest to De Kalb avenue 

north from York, between Washington and Adams 

from Tillary street, south to Willoughby. 

from Front, south to Prospect street. 

from Johnson, south to Myrtle avenue. 

from Nostrand avenue, east to Broadway. 

from Navy street, east to Prospect street. 

from Bushwick avenue, northeast to Flushing avenue. 

from De Kalb avenue, south to Atlantic avenue. 

from Bushwick Creek to Commercial street. 

from Wallabout, south and southwest to City Line. 

from Pearl, east to Jay street. 

from East River to Paidge avenue. 

from Fulton street, east to Hudson avenue. 

from Norman avenue, northwest to Sutton street. 

from Union avenue, east to Kingsland avenue. 

from East River, south and southeast to City Line. 

from Fulton street, southwest to Livingston. 

from Fulton street, southwest to Atlantic avenue. 

from Broadway, northeast to Evergreen avenue, 
from Fulton street, south to Livingston street. 
from Flushing avenue, southeast to Bushwick. 
from Joralemon street, southwest to State street. 
from Jefferson street, north to Meeker avenue, 
from Hamilton avenue to Smith street. 
from Front street, south to York street. 
from Fulton street, east to Broadway, 
from North 15th street, north to Meserole avenue, 
from Evergreen avenue, northeast to Thames street, 
from Marcy avenue, northeast to Broadway, 
from East River, south to Fulton street. 
from Pearl street, west to Adams street. 
from Hicks street, near Remsen, runs northwest and north, 
from Flushing avenue, south to Lafayette avenue, 
from Broadway, north to Van Cott avenue, 
from East River, southeast and east to Newtown Creek, 
from Flushing avenue, south and southwest to Washing- 
ton avenue, 
from Broadway, northeast to City Line. 
from Bogart street, east to Jefferson street. 
from East River, east to Paidge avenue, 
from Fulton street, east to City Line, 
from Front, south to Sands street, 
from East River, east to Newtown Creek, 
from Otsego street, soutlieast to Gowanus Bay. 
from Broadway, northeast to City Line, 
from Hanover place, near Fulton street, runs southeast 



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NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



Guernsey street, 
Guilford street, 
Gunther place, 
Gwinnett street, 
Hall street, 
Hal leek street, 
Halsey street, 
Hamburg street, 
Hamilton street, 
Hamilton avenue, 
Hancock street, 
Hanover place, 
Hanson place, 
Harmon street. 
Harper court, 
Harrison street, 
Harrison avenue, 
Harrison court, 
Harrison place, 
Hart street, 
Hart's alley, 
Hausman street, 
Henry street, 
Henry place, 
Herbert, 
Herkimer, 
Herkimer place, 
Hewes street, 
Heyward street, 
Hicks street, 
High street, 
Himrod street, 
Holand street. 
Hooper street, 
Hope street, 
Hopkins street, 
Hopkinson avenue, 
Howard avenue, 
Howard court, 
Hoyt street, 
Hudson avenue, 
Hull street, 
Hull street, E. D. 
Humboldt street, 
Huntington street, 
Huron street, 
Imlay street, 
India street, 
India wharf, 
Ingraham street, 
Irving street. 



from Fifth st., bet. K. 15th and Oak sts., half a block. 

from Maspeth avenue, south to Orient avenue. 

from Herkimer street, southwest to Atlantic avenue. 

from AVallabout street, northeast to Broadway. 

from Flushing avenue, south to Lafayette avenue. 

from Otsego street, southeast to Gowanus Bay. 

from Bedford avenue, east to Broadway. 

from Flushing avenue, southeast to Evergreen Cemetery. 

from Flushing avenue, south to Atlantic avenue. 

from East River, south to Third avenue. 

from Franklin avenue, east to Broadway. 

from Fulton street, southwest to Livingston street. 

from Flatbush avenue, east to Fulton street. 

from Bushwick avenue, northeast to City line. 

from Jay street, east to LawTence street. 

from East River, east to Court street. 

from Division avenue, southeast to Flushing avenue. 

from Front street, near James, runs north half block. 

from Bogart street, east to Jefferson street. 

from Nostrand avenue, east to Broadway. 

from Gold street, east to Bridge street. 

from IMeeker avenue, north to Front street, E. D. 

from Fulton street, southwest to Brooklyn Basin. 

from Paidge avenue, northeast to Newtown Creek. 

from Richardson street, northeast to Kingsland avenue. 

from Bedford avenue, east to City Line. 

from Bedford avenue, east to Nostrand avenue. 

from Wallabout Canal, northeast to Broadway. 

from Wallabout street, northeast to Broadway. 

from Fulton street, southwest to Gowanus Bay. 

from Fulton street, east to Navy street. 

from Bushwick avenue, northeast to City Line. 

from Paidge avenue, northeast to Newtown Creek. 

from Wallabout Canal, northeast to Division avenue. 

from Sixth street, southeast to Union avenue. 

from Nostrand avenue, east to Broadway. 

from Broadway, south to City Line. 

from Broadway, south to City Line. 

from Main street, near Water street, runs west half a block. 

from Fulton street, southwest to Fifth street. 

from East River, south to Fulton street. 

from Fulton street, east to Broadway. 

from Broadway, northeast to Evergreen Cemetery. 

from Flushing avenue, north to Meserole avenue. 

from Columbia street, southeast to Gowanus Bay. 

from East River, east to Kingsland avenue. 

from Hamilton avenue, southwest to William street. 

from East River, east to Kingsland avenue. 

from Commercial whf . , N. to North pier and Atlantic dock. 

from Bogart street, east to Jefferson street. 

from East River, southeast to Columbia street. 



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253 



Irving avenue, 
Irving place, 
Ivy street, 
Jackson street, 
Jackson court, 
JacksoBf place, 
Jacob street, 
James street, 
Jane street, 
Java street, 
Jay street, 
Jefferson street, 
Jefferson st., E. D., 
Jewel street, 
John street, 
Johnson street, 
Johnson avenue, 
Joralemon street. 
Judge street, 
Kane place, 
Keap street, 
Kent street, 
Kent avenue. 
King street, 
Kingsland avenue, 
Kingston avenue, 
Knickerbocker av., 
Kosciusko street, 
Kosciusko place 
Kussuth place, 
Lafayette, street, 
Lafayette avenue, 
Le Grange street, 
Lake street, 
Lawrence, 
Lawrence place, 
Lawton street, 
Lee avenue, 
Leffert's park, 
Leffert's place, 
Leonard street, 
Lewis avenue, 
Lexington avenue, 
Leyden street. 
Liberty street, 
Lincoln place. 
Linden street. 
Little street. 
Little Nassau street, 
Livingston street. 
Locust street. 



from Varick avenue, southeast to City Line. 

from Gates avenue, south to Fulton street. 

from Broadway, northeast to City Line. 

from Union avenue, east to Kingsland avenue. 

from Front street, near Gold street-, runs south hdf a block. 

from Sixteenth street, southwest to Prospect avenue. 

from Broadway, northeast to City Line. 

from Front street, southeast to Main street. 

from Union avenue, east to Leonard street, 

from East River, east to Greenpoint avenue. 

from East River, south to Fulton street. 

from Ormond place, east to Broadway. 

from Broadway, northeast to Cypress avenue. 

from Humboldt street, north to Greenpoint avenue. 

from Adams street, east to Little street. 

from Fulton street, east to Raymond street. 

from Broadway, east to Cypress avenue. 

from East River to Fulton street. 

from Devoe street, south to Powers street. 

from Herkimer street, southwest to Atlantic avenue. 

from Wallabout Canal, northeast to Division avenue. 

from East River, east to Newtown Creek. 

from Division avenue, southeast to Lafayette avenue. 

from Columbia street, northwest to New York Bay. 

from Maspeth avenue, north to Paidge avenue. 

from Fulton street, south to City Line. 

from Vandevoort avenue, southeast to City Line. 

from Bedford avenue, east to Bushwick avenue. 

from Graham street, runs east \^ blocks. 

from Broadway, northeast to Bushwick avenue. 

from Fleet street, northeast to Raymond street. 

from Flatbush avenue, east to Bushwick avenue. 

from Grand street, south to Maujer street, 

from Bridgewater street, northeast to Newtown Creek. 

from Lawrence place, south to Fulton street. 

runs east and west, at north end of Lawrence street. 

from Broadway, northeast to Bushwick avenue. 

from Division avenue, southeast to Gwinnett street. 

bounded by Tompkins, Gates, Throop avs. & Quincy st. 

from St. James place, southeast to Franklin av. 

from Broadway, north to Greenpoint av. 

from Floyd street, south to Fulton street. 

from Grand avenue, east to Broadway. 

from Paidge avenue, northeast to Newtown Creek. 

from Nassau street, south to rear of 241 Fulton street. 

from Fifth avenue, to Prospect Park. 

from Broadway, northeast to City Line. 

from East River, southwest to Evans street. 

from Graham street, n. Park avenue, runs east 1)4 Wockl. 

from Sidney place, east to Flatbush avenue. 

from Broadway northeast to Beaver street. 



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NEW YOKK AS IT IS. 



Lombardy street, 
Lorimer street, 
Lorraine street, 
Louis place, 
Love lane, 
Lu queer street. 
Lynch street, 
Macomb street, 
Macon street, 
Madison street. 
Magnolia street. 
Main street, 
Malbone street, 
Manhasset place, 
Marcy avenue, 
Margaretta street, 
Marion street, 
Marshall street, 
Maspeth avenue, 
Maujer street, 
McDonough street, 
McDougal street, 
McKenney street, 
McKibben street. 
Meadow street. 
Meeker avenue, 
Melrose street, 
Mercein street, 
Meserole street, 
Meserole avenue, 
Metropolitan avenue, 
Middagh street, 
Middleton street. 
Mill street, 
Mill street, E. D. 
Milton street, 
Moffatt street. 
Monitor street, 
Monroe street, 
Monroe place, 
Montague place, 
Montague teiTace, 
Montgomery street, 
Monteith street, 
Montrose avenue, 
Moore street, 
Morgan avenue, 
Morrell street, 
Morse street, 
Morton street, 
Moultrie street, 



from Kingsland avenue, east to Newtown Creek. 

from Broadway, north to Noble street. 

from Otsego street, southeast to Hamilton avenue. 

from Herkimer street, southwest to Atlantic avenue. 

f ro'm Henry street, west to Hicks street. 

from Columbia street, southeast to Smith street. 

from Wallabout street, northeast to Broadway. 

from Fourth avenue, southeast to Ninth avenue. 

from Arlington place, east to Hopkinson avenue. 

from Classon avenue, east to Broadway. 

from Broadway, northeast to City Line. 

from East River, south to Fulton street. 

from City Line, north to Albany avenue. 

from Rapelye street, southeast to Coles street. 

from Division avenue, south to Fulton street. 

from Broadway, northeast to City Line 

from Fulton street, east to Broadway. 

froro East River, east to Little street. 

from Humboldt street, northeast to Newtown Creek. 

from South First street, east to Newtown Creek. 

from Marcy avenue, east to Broadway 

from Fulton street, east to Broadway. 

from Doughty street, southwest to Poplar street. 

from Broadway, east to Bogart street. 

from Waterbury street, east to Newtown Creek. 

from Richardson street, northeast to Newtown Creek, 

from Evergreen avenue, northeast to Irving avenue. 

from James street, east to Garrison street. 

from Union avenue, east to City Line. 

from Franklin street, east to Front street. 

from Richardson street, northeast to Newton Creek. 

from Columbia Heights, east to Fulton street. 

from Wallabout street, northeast to Throop avenue. 

from Columbia street, east to Hamilton avenue. 

from Metropolitan avenue, east to Newtown Creek. 

from East River, east to Orchard street. 

from Broadway, northeast to City Line. 

from Richardson street, north to Greenpoint avenue. 

from Classon avenue, east to Broadway. 

from Clark street, southwest to Pierrepont avenue. 

from East River, east to Court street. 

from Montague street, south to Remsen street. 

from Eighth avenue, southeast to City Line. 

from Bushwick avenue, east to Evergreen avenue. 

from Union avenue, east to City Line. 

from Broadway, east to Bogart street. 

from Flushing avenue, north to Front street. 

from Flushing avenue, north to Bushwick avenue. 

from Bridgewater street, northeast to Newtown Creek. 

from Kent avenue, northeast to Bedford avenue. 

from Humboldt street, north to Greenpoint avenue. 



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255 



Mumby's alley. 
Myrtle street, 
Myrtle avenue, 
Nassau street, 
Nassau avenue, 
Nassau place, 
Navy street, 
Naylor's alley. 
Nelson street, 
Nevins street, 
Newell street, 
Newton street, 
New York avenue, 
Noble street, 
Norman avenue, 
N. Elliott place, 
N. Henry street, 
N. Oxford street, 
N. Portland avenue, 
Nostrand avenue 
Nutria alley, 
Oak street, 
Oakland street, 
Ocean place, 
Olive street, 
Olive place. 
Orange street. 
Orchard street, 
Oregon street. 
Orient avenue, 
Ormond place, 
Osage street, 
Otsego street. 
Pacific street, 
Paidge avenue, 
Palmetto street, 
Park street. 
Park avenue. 
Park place. 
Park way, 
Parker street, 
Partition street, 
Patchen avenue, 
Pearl street, 
Penn street, 
Pequot street, 
Percival street, 
Perry place, 
Phillips alley, " 
Pierrepont street, 
Pierrepont place. 



from Nassau street, north to High street, 
from Broadway, northeast to City Line. 
from Fulton street, east to City Line, 
from Fulton street, east to Navy street, 
from N. Fourteenth street, northeast to Varick street, 
from Nassau street, south to Concord street, 
from York street, south to Flatbush avenue, 
from Washington street, west to Liberty street, 
from Columbia street, southeast to Smith street, 
from Flatbush avenue, southwest to Carroll, 
from Van Cott avenue, north to Greenpoint avenue, 
from Union avenue, northeast to Van Pelt street, 
from Fulton street, south to City Line, 
from East River, east to Orchard street. 
from N. Fifteenth street, northeast to Bridgewater street, 
from Flushing avenue, south to Myrtle avenue, 
from Richardson street, north to Paidge street, 
from Flushing avenue, south to Myrtle avenue, 
from Flushing avenue, south to Myrtle avenue, 
from Wallabout street, south to City Line 
from Adams street, east to Jay street, 
from East River, east to Guernsey street, 
from Van Cott avenue, north to Newtown Creek, 
from Herkimer street, southwest to Atlantic avenue, 
from Grand street, north to Sharon street, 
from Herkimer street, southwest to Atlantic avenue, 
from Columbia Heights, east to Fulton street, 
from Van Pelt street, north to Greenpoint avenue, 
from Otsego street, southeast to Gowanus Bay. 
from Metropolitan avenue, east to Newtown Creek, 
from Putnam avenue, south to Fulton street, 
from Cuba street, southwest to Gowanus Bay. 
from Dwight street, southwest to N. Y. Bay. 
from East River, east to City Line, 
from Oakland street, southeast to Newtown Creek, 
from Broadway, northeast to City Line. 
from Broadway, northeast to Beaver street, 
from Hudson avenue, east to Broadway, 
from Fifth avenue, east to City Line, 
from Prospect park, east to City Line, 
from Kingsland avenue, east to Newtown Creekc 
from Otsego street, northwest to New York Bay, 
from Broadway, south to Fulton street, 
from East River, south to Fulton street, 
from Classon avenue, northeast to Broadway, 
from Paidge avenue, northeast to Newtown creek, 
from Otsego street, southeast to Gowanus Bay. 
from Atlantic avenue, north to Herkimer place, 
from Plymouth street, south to Water street. 
from Columbia Heights, east to Fulton street. 
from Pierrepont street, opposite Columbia Heights, south 
to Montague street. 



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NEW YOEK AS IT IS. 



Pilling Street, 
Pineapple street, 
Pink street, 
Plaza street. 

Pleasant place, 
Plymouth street, 
Polhemus place. 
Pollock street. 
Poplar street. 
Poplar place. 
Porter avenue. 
Powers street, E.D, 
Prescott place. 
President street, 
Prince street, 
Prince street ct., 
Privat way. 
Prospect street. 
Prospect St., E.D., 
Prospect avenue. 
Prospect park. 
Prospect place. 
Prospect terrace, 
Provost street, 
Pulaski street, 
Putnam avenue, 
Quay street, 
Quincy street, 
Radde place, 
Ralph street, 
Ralph avenue, 
Randolph street, 
Ranton street, 
Rapelye street, 
Raymond street, 
Red Hook lane, 
Reid street, 
Reid avenue, 
Remsen street, 
Richards street, 
Richardson street, 
River street, 
Rochester avenue. 
Rock street, 
Rockaway avenue, 
Rodney street, 
Rogers avenue, 
Ross street. 
Rush street, 
Russell street, 



from Broadway, northeast to City Line. 

from Columbia Heights, east to Fulton street. 

from Commercial street, north to East River. 

at entrance of Prospect Park, at Vanderbilt and Flatbush 

avenues, 
from Herkimer street, southwest to Atlantic avenue, 
from East River, east to Little street, 
from Carroll street, southwest to Macomb street, 
from Front street, northeast to Newtown Creek, 
from Columbia Heights to Henry street, 
from Fulton street, south to Poplar street, 
from Thames street, north to Meeker avenue. 
, from Union avenue, east to Catharine street, 
from Herkimer street, southwest to Atlantic avenue, 
from Hamilton street, southeast to City Line, 
from Concord street, south to Fleet street, 
from Prince street, near Concord street, one-half block, 
from Pearl street, east to Jay street, 
from Main street, east to Navy street, 
from Bushwick avenue, east to Knickerbocker avenue, 
from Gowanus Bay southeast to City Line, 
bounded by Flatbush avenue. Ninth ave. and Fifteenth St. 
from Fifth avenue, east to City Line. 
Prospect place, near Jay street, one-half block. 
from Greenpoint avenue, northeast to Paidge avenue. 
from ^ostrand avenue, east to Broadway 
from Fulton street, east to Broadway, 
from East River, east to Franklin street, 
from Downing street, east to Broadway, 
from Herkimer street, southwest to Atlantic avenue, 
from Bushwick avenue, northeast to City Line, 
from Broadway, south to City Line, 
from Bogart street, east to Covert avenue, 
from Paidge avenue, northeast to Newtown Creek, 
from Van Brunt street, southeast to Henry street. 
from Park avenue, south to Flatbush avenue, 
from Fulton street, southwest to Livingston street, 
from Van Brunt street, northwest to New York Bay. 
from Pulaski street, south to Fulton street, 
from Firman street, southeast to Court street, 
from Rapelye street, southwest to Elizabeth street, 
from Union avenue, east to Kingsland avenue, 
from First street, north to North Third street, 
from Fulton street, south to City Line, 
from Bogart street, east to Prospect street, 
from Broadway, southeast to City Line, 
from Wallabout Canal, northeast to Division avenue, 
from Pacific street, south to City Line, 
from Wallabout Canal, northeast to Division avenue, 
from Kent avenue, east to Division avenue, 
from Meeker avenue, north to Greenpoint avenue. 



AVENUES AND STREETS IN BROOKLYN. 



257 



Russell place, 
Rutledge street, 
Ryerson street, 
Sackett street, 
Sackman street, 
Sandford street, 
Sands street, 
Saratoga avenue, 
Schaeffer street, 
Schenck street, 
Schenectady avenue, 
Schermerhorn street, 
Scholes street, 
Scott avenue, 
Seabring street, 
Sedgwick street, 
Seigel street, 
Seneca avenue, 
Setauket street, 
Sharon street, 
Shawnett street, 
Sherman street, 
Sidney place, 
Sigourney street, 
Skillman street, 
Skillman avenue, 
Smith street. 
Smith's alley, 
Snell's alley, 
Somers street, 
S. Elliott place, 
S. Oxford street, 
S. Portland avenue, 
Spencer street, 
Spencer place, 
Sprague's alley. 
Spruce street, 
Stagg street. 
Stanhope street, 
Starr street. 
State street. 
Sterling place, 
Steuben street, 
Stewart street, 
Stewart avenue, 
Stewart alley, 
St. Ann's court, 

St, Andrew's place, 
St. Felix street, 
St. James' place. 



from Herkimer street, southwest to Atlantic avenue. 

from Wallabout street, northeast to Broadway. 

from Flushing avenue, south to Lafayette avenue. 

from East River, southeast to Prospect Park. 

from Broadway, south to Fulton street. 

from Flushing avenue, south to DeKalb avenue. 

from Fulton street, east to Navy street. 

from Broadway, south to City Line. 

from Broadway, northeast to City Line. 

from Flushing avenue, south to Lafayette avenue. 

from Fulton street, south to City Line. 

from Clinton street, south to Flatbush avenue. 

from Union avenue, east to Newtown Creek. 

from Johnson avenue, north to Newtown Creek. 

from Columbia, northwest to Van Brunt street. 

from East River, southeast to Columbia street. 

from Broadway, east to Bogart street. 

from Randolph street, north to Newtov/n Creek. 

from Paidge avenue, northeast to Newtown Creek. 

from Orient street, east to Morgan street. 

from Paidge avenue, northeast to Newtown Creek. 

from 10th avenue, southeast to City Line. 

from Joralemon street, south to State street. 

from Otsego street, southeast to Gowanus Bay. 

from Flushing avenue, south to Lafayette avenue. 

from Union avenue, east to Kingsland avenue. 

from Fulton street, southwest to Gowanus Bay. 

from High street, south to Nassau street. 

from Nassau street, north to High street, 

from Fulton street, east to Broadway. 

from DeKalb avenue, south to Atlantic avenue. 

from DeKalb avenue, south to Atlantic avenue. 

from DeKalb avenue, south to Atlantic avenue. 

from Flushing avenue, south to DeKalb avenue. 

from Fulton street, north to Hancock. 

from Fulton street, east to Liberty street. 

from Maujer street, north to Grand street. 

from Un on avenue, east to Newtown Creek. 

from Bushwick avenue, northeast to Cypress avenue. 

from Central avenue, northeast to City Line. 

from Furman street, southeast to Flatbush avenue. 

from 5th avenue, east to Flatbush avenue. 

from Flushing avenue, southeast to Lafayette avenue. 

from Broadway, northeast to Evergreen Cemetery. 

from Jefferson street, north to Meeker avenue. 

from Water street, south to Front street. 

from Washington street near Sands street, runs west half a 

block, 
from Atlantic avenue, north to Herkimer street, 
from DeKalb avenue, south to Hanson place, 
from Lafayette avenue, south to Atlantic avenue. 



268 



NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



St. John's place, 
St. Mark's avenue, 
St. Nicholas avenue, 
Stockholm street, 
Stockton street, 
Stone avenue, 
Strong place, 
Stryker court, 
Stuyvesant avenue, 
Sullivan street. 
Summit street, 
Sumpter street, 
Sutton street, 
Suydam street, 
Suydam place. 
Sycamore street, 
Talman street, 
Taylor street. 
Ten Eyck street, 
Thames street, 
Thomas street, 
Thornton street, 
Throop avenue, 
Tiffany place, 
Tillary street, 
Tompkin's avenue, 
Tompkin's place, 
Tompkin's square, 

Townsend street, 
Tremont street, 
Troutman street, 
Troy avenue, 
Truxton street, 
Underhill avenue, 
Union street. 
Union avenue. 
Union court. 
Union lane. 
Union place, 
United States street, 
Utica avenue. 
Vail street. 
Van Brunt street. 
Van Buren street. 
Van Cott avenue, 
Vandam street, 
Vanderbilt avenue, 
Vanderveer street, 
Vandervoort av., 
Vandyke street, 



from 5th avenue, south to Flatbush avenue, 
from 5th avenue, east to City Line, 
from Jefferson street, southeast to City Line, 
from Bush wick avenue, northeast to City Line, 
from Nostrand avenue, east to Broadway, 
from Broadway, south to City Line, 
from Harrison street, south to Degraw. 
from Jay street, near Chapel street, runs east half block. 
from Broadway, south to Fulton street, 
from Dwight street, northwest to New York Bay. , 

from Conover street, southeast to Henry street, 
from Fulton street, east to Broadway, 
from Meeker avenue, northeast to Paidge avenue, 
from Broadway, northeast to City Line, 
from Herkimer street, southwest to Atlantic avenue, 
from Raymond street, east to Canton street, 
from Jay street, east to Charles street, 
from Washington avenue, northeast to Lee avenue, 
from Union avenue, east to Newtown Creek, 
from Bogart street, east to Jefferson street, 
from Varick street, northeast to Newtown Creek, 
from Throop avenue, northeast to Broadway, 
from Broadway, south to Fulton street. 
from Harrison street, south to Degraw street, 
from Fulton street, east to Canton street, 
from Flushing avenue, south to Fulton street, 
from Harrison street, south to Degraw street, 
bounded by Mercy avenue, Greene avenue, Tompkins ave- 
nue, and Lafayette avenue, 
from Stewart avenue, northeast to Newtovm Creek, 
from Columbia, northwest to Van Brunt street, 
from Myrtle avenue northeast to City Line, 
from Fulton street, south to City Line, 
from Fulton street, east to Broadway, 
from Washington avenue, south to Prospect Park. 
from Hamilton avenue, southeast to City Line, 
from Broadway, north to Fifth street, 
from Union street, near Hamilton, southwest half block, 
from Myrtle avenue, near Adams street, south half block, 
.from Greenpoint avenue, north to Newtown Creek, 
from Little street, southeast to Navy street, 
from Fulton street, south to City Line, 
from Sutton street, northeast to Newtown Creek, 
from Harrison street, southwest to Gowanus Bay. 
from St. James place, northeast to Bushwick av. 
from Leonard street, east to Meeker avenue, 
from Meeker avenue, northeast to Newtown Creek, 
from Flushing avenue, south to Flatbush avenue, 
from Broadway, northeast to Evergreen Cemetery, 
from Thames street, north to Meeker avenue, 
from Otsego street, northwest to New York Bay, 



AVENUES AND STREETS IN BKOOKLYN. 



259 



Van Pelt street, 
Van Voorhis street, 
Varet street, 
Varick street, 
Varick avenue, 
Yerandah place, 
Verona place, 
Vigelius street. 
Vine street, 
Waalbocht place, 
"Waldron place, 
Wall street, 
"Wallabout street, 
Wallock street, 
Walton street, 
Walworth street, 
Warren street, 
Washington street, 
Washington avenue, 
Washington park, 

Washington place, 
Water street, 
Waterbury street, 
Wayhome street, 
Webster street, 
Webster place, 
Wairfield street, 
West street, 
Whipple street. 
White street, 
Whitwell place, 
William street, 
Williamsburg road, 
Willoughby street, 
Willoughby avenue 
Willow street, 
Willow place, 
Wilson street. 
Withers street, 
Witherspoon street, 
Wolcott street. 
Woodbine street, 
Woodhull street, 
Wright street, 
Wyckoff street, 
Wyckoff avenue, 
Wythe avenue, 
Yates avenue, 
Yates place, 
York street. 



from Fifth street, east to Meeker avenue. 

from Broadway, northeast to City Line. 

from Broadway, east to Bogart street. 

from Meeker avenue, north to Newtown Creek. 

from Flushing avenue, north to Meeker avenue. 

from Henry street, east to Clinton street. 

from Macon street, south to Fulton street. 

from Broadway, northeast to City Line, 

from McKenney street, northwest to Columbia Heights. 

from Washington avenue, southeast to Williamsburg rd. 

from York street, between Jay and Bridge streets. 

from Broadway, northeast to Bushwick avenue. 

from Williamsburg road, east to Broadway. 

from Paidge avenue, northeast to Newtown Creek. 

from Wallabout street, northeast to Broadway. 

from Flushing avenue, south to DeKalb avenue. 

from East Kiver, southeast to Fifth avenue. 

from East River, south to Fulton street. 

from Kent avenue, south to City Line. 

bounded by Canton St., Cumberland St., DeKalb av., and 

Myrtle avenue, 
from Washington St., bet. Tillary and Concord streets. 
from Fulton street, east to Hudson avenue, 
from Johnson avenue, north to Grand street, 
from Gold St., bet. Nassau & Concord sts., runs E. ^ block, 
from Front St., bet. Morgan av., N. E. to Newtown Creek, 
from Sixteenth street, south to Prospect avenue, 
from Broadway, northeast to City Line, 
from Bushwick Creek, north to Dupont street, 
from Flushing avenue, northeast to Broadway, 
from Cook street, north to Johnson avenue, 
from Carroll street, southwest to First street, 
from Columbia street, northwest to Atlantic dock, 
from Flushing avenue, north to Hewes street, 
from Fulton street, east to Canton street, 
from Cumberland street, east to Broadway, 
from Poplar street, southwest to Pierrepont street, 
from Joralemon street, southwest to State street, 
from Wallabout Canal, northeast to Division avenue, 
from North Ninth street, east to Kingsland avenue, 
from Nostrand avenue, east to Broadway, 
from Dwight street, northwest to New York Bay. 
from Broadway, northeast to City Line, 
from Hamilton avenue, southeast to Henry street, 
from Front street, northeast to Newtown Creek, 
from Court street, east to Fifth avenue, 
from Jefferson street, southeast to City Line, 
from Division avenue, south to Wallabout street, 
from Hopkins street, south to Fulton street, 
from Broadway, northeast to Flushing avenue, 
from Fulton street, east to Navy street. 



260 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

First street, from Hoyt street, southeast to Ninth avenue. 

First street (E. D,), from Division avenue, northeast to N. Fourteenth street. 

First avenue, from Fortieth street, southwest to City Line. 

First place, from Henry street, southeast to Smith street. 

North First street, from East River, soutlieast to Fifth street. 

South First street, from East River, southeast to Union avenue. 

Second street, from Smith street, soutlieast to Ninth avenue. 

Second street (E. D.),from Division avenue, northeast to N. Fifteenth street. 

Second avenue, from Gowanus Canal, southwest to City Line. 

Second place, from Henry street, southeast to Smith street. 

North Second street,from East River, east to Bushwick avenue. 

South second street, from East River, southeast to Union avenue. 

Third street. from Smith street, southeast to Ninth avenue. 

Third street (E. D.), from Division avenue, north to Fourteenth street. 

Third avenue, from Flatbush avenue, southwest to City Line. 

Third place, from Henry street, southeast to Smith street. 

North Third street, from East River, southeast to Fifth street. 

South Third street, from East River, southeast to Union avenue. 

Fourth street, from Smith street, southeast to Ninth avenue. 

Fourth street (E. D.),from Division avenue, northeast to Orchard street* 

Fourth avenue, from Flatbush avenue, southwest to City Line. 

Fourth place, from Henry street, southeast to Smith street. 

North Fourth street,from East River, southeast to N. Second street. 

South Fourth street, from East River, southeast to Union avenue. 

Fifth street, from Smith street, southeast to Ninth avenue. 

Fifth street (E. D.), from Division avenue, northeast to Leonard street. 

Fifth avenue, from Atlantic avenue, southeast to City Line. 

North Fifth street, from East River, southeast to Union avenue. 

South Fifth street, from East River, southeast to Union avenue. 

Sixth street, from Smith street, southeast to Ninth avenue. 

Sixth street (E. D.), from Division avenue, north to Union avenue. 

Sixth avenue, from Atlantic avenue, southwest to City Line. 

North Sixth street, from East River, southeast to North Second street. 

South Sixth street, from East River, southeast to Broadway. 

Seventh street, from Smith street, southeast to Ninth avenue. 

Seventh street (E.D.), from Division Avenue, northeast to Ninth avenue. 

Seventh avenue, from Flatbush avenue, southwest to City Line. 

North Seventh street, from East River, southeast to Union avenue. 

Eighth street, from Gowanus Canal, southeast to Ninth Avenue. 

Eighth street (E. D.),from Division avenue, northeast to North Second street. 

Eighth avenue, from Flatbush avenue, southwest to City Line. 

North Eighth street, from East River, southeast to Union avenue. 

South Eighth street, from East River, southeast to Broadway. 

Ninth street, from Smith street, southeast to Ninth avenue. 

Ninth street (E. D)., from Division avenue. North to North Second street. 

Ninth avenue, from Union street, southwest to Twenty-first street. 

North Ninth street, from East River, southeast to Seventh street. 

South Ninth street, from East River, east to Broadway. 

Tenth street, from Gowanus Canal, southeast to Ninth avenue. 

Tenth street (E. D.), from Division Avenue, north to Union avenue. 

Tenth avenue, from Fifteenth street, southwest to Twenty-second street. 



AVENUES AND STREETS IN BROOKLYN. 261 

North Tenth street, from East River, southeast to Union avenue. 
South Tenth street, from East River, east to Fourth street. 
Eleventh street, from Second avenue, southeast to Ninth avenue. 

Eleventh street(E.D),from Broadway, north to Grand street. 
Eleventh avenue, from Fifteenth street, southwest to City Line. 
North Eleventh st. , from East River, southeast to Union avenue. 
South Eleventh st. , from East River, east to Third street. 
Twelfth street, from Gowanus Canal, southeast to Ninth avenue. 

Twelfth street (E.D.), from Broadway, north to Union avenue. 
North Twelfth street, from East River, southeast to Union avenue. 
Thirteenth street, from Gowanus Canal, southeast to Ninth avenue. 
North Thirteenth st.,from East River, southeast to Union avenue. 
Fourteenth street, from Hamilton avenue, southeast to Ninth avenue. 
North Fourteenth St., from East River, southeast to Fifth street. 
Fifteenth street, from Hamilton avenue, southeast to City Line. 

North Fifteenth st. , from Franklin street, southeast to Fifth street. 
Sixteenth street, from Hamilton avenue, southeast to City Line. 
Seventeenth street, from Gowanus Bay, southeast to City Line. 
Eighteenth street, from Gowanus Bay, southeast to City Line. 
Nineteenth street, from Gowanus Bay, southeast to City Line. 
Twentieth street, from Gowanus Bay, southeast to City Line. 
Twenty-first street, from Gowanus Bay, southeast to City Line. 
Twenty-second st., from Gowanus Bay, southeast to City Line. 
Twenty-third street, from Gowanus Bay, southeast to Seventh avenue. 
Twenty-fourth street, from Gowanus Bay, southeast to Sixth avenue. 
Twenty-fifth street, from Gowanus Bay, southeast to Fifth avenue. 
Twenty-sixth street, from Gowanus Bay, southeast to Fifth avenue. 
Twenty-seventh St., from Gowanus Bay, southeast to Fifth avenue. 
Twenty-eighth st., from Gowanus Bay, southeast to Fifth avenue. 
Twenty-ninth street, from Gowanus Bay, southeast to Fifth avenue. 
Thirtieth street, from Gowanus Bay, southeast to Fifth avenue. 

Thirty-first street, from Gowanus Bay, southeast to Fifth avenue. 
Thirty-second street, from Gowanus Bay, southeast to Fifth avenue. 
Thirty-third street, from Gowanus Bay, southeast to Fifth avenue. 
Thirty-fourth street, from Gowanus Bay, southeast to Fifth avenue. 
Thirty-fifth street, from Gowanus Bay, southeast to Fifth avenue. 
Thirty-sixth street, from Gowanus Bay, south to Seventh avenue. 
Thirty-seventh street, from Gowanus Bay, southeast to City Line. 
Thirty-eighth street, from Gowanus Bay, southeast to City Lme. 
Thirty-ninth street, from Gowanus Bay, southeast to City Line. 
Fortieth street, from Gowanus Bay, southeast to City Line. 

Forty-first street, from Gowanus Bay, southeast to City Line. 
Forty-second street, from Gowanus Bay, southeast to City Line. 
Forty-third street, from Gowanus Bay, southeast to City Line. 
Forty-fourth street, from Gowanus Bay, southeast to City Line. 
Forty-fifth street, from Gowanus Bay, southeast to City Line. 
Forty-sixth street, from Gowanus Bay, southeast to City Line. 
Forty-seventh street, from Gowanus Bay, southeast to Eighth avenue. 
Forty-eighth street, from Gowanus Bay, southeast to City Line. 
Forty-ninth street, from New York Bay, southeast to City Line. 
Fiftieth street, from New York Bay, southeast to City Line. 



262 NEW YOKK AS IT IS. 

Fifty-first street, fnin New York Bay, southeast to City Line. 
Fifty-second street, from New York Bay, southeast to City Line. 
Fifty-third street, from New York Bay, southeast to City Line. 
Fifty-fourth street, from New York Bay, southeast to City Line. 
Fifty-fifth street, from New York Bay, southeast to City Line. 
Fifty-sixth street, ' from New York Bay, southeast to City Line. 
Fifty-seventh street, from New York Bay, southeast to City Line. 
Fifty-eighth street, from New York Bay, southeast to City Line. 
Fifty-ninth street, from New York Bay, southeast to City Line. 

Sixtieth street, the Division Line bet. the City of Brooklyn & New Utrecht. 

• 

LONG ISLAND CITY, 

Queens County, N. Y., is situated on the East River and Long Island Sound, 
opposite the upper part of the City of New York. It was incorporated in 1870, 
and is divided into five wards, including Astoria, Ravenswood and Hunter's 
Point. Population about 14,000. The streets and avenues are being handsome- 
ly laid out, most of them running at right angles. A street railroad runs from 
Astoria through Vernon Avenue to Hunter's Point, and connects with the 
Williamsburgh railroads, the Long Island Bailroad and i\iQ New York and Flushing 
Railroad both run from Hunter's Point, connecting with steam ferry boats 
crossing the East River to New York. 

A bridge will soon be completed, to extend from New York to Blackwell's 
Island, and thence to Long Island City, at Ravenswood. When completed the 
distance from the City Hall tc the centre of Long Island City will not exceed 
six miles, thus placing this favored place of residence in easy communication 
with the City of New York. 

Astoria, lying opposite New York, being connected by a steam ferry to 92d 
Street, has long been the abode of many New York merchants, and contains fine 
residences along the shore, commanding fine views across Hell Gate and up 
the East River. 

At this place (Hallett's Point), the United States Government W orks are sit- 
uated, and soon the dreaded rocks will all be removed, making the ac- 
cess to and from the ocean through the Sound easier and shorter than through 
the " Narrows." Two lines of fast steamers run from Fulton Ferry and Peck 
Slip for Harlem and Morrisania, stopping at Astoria. 

Ravenswood, opposite Blackwell's Island, is a continuous line of private 
residences, from Hallett's Cove to Hunter's Point, along the shore between 
Vernon Avenue and the East River. 

Hunter's Point, closely connected with the City of New York by steam 
ferries, is the centre of all the Railroads of Long Island, and is fast growing to be a 
place of importance. Its streets are being graded, sewered, paved and curbed. 
It is the great mart for petroleum and its products. 

HISTORICAL EVENTS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. 

No portion of the Union witnessed more stirring and unfortunate events than 
those enacted on Long Island near Brooklyn. On the 22d of August, 1776, the 
British Army, under Lord Howe, landed on Long Island, near the present site of 
Fort Hamilton, and marched direct towards Flatbush, near where is now located 
Prospect Park. Here was stationed the American Army under General Wash- 
ington, consisting of about 10,000 men, most of whom were undisciplined and 
illy prepared with arms for defence. 



LONG ISLAND SUBUKBS. 263 

On the 37th of August a severe battle was fought in which the Americans 
were defeated with great loss of life. New York was soon after occupied by the 
British, and Washington retreated to Harlem Heights, near the upper end of the 
island, where several skirmishes ensued, ending in the capture of Fort Washing- 
ton with about 2,000 prisoners. 

Then followed the inhuman incarceration of the American prisoners in the 
"Sugar House," and other places in the City of New York ; also, on board 
prison ships, lying in Wallabout Bay, Brooklyn. The following is a brief history 
of these floating dungeons and the sufferings of the prisoners. 

"During the Revolution the British had stationed at the Wallabout, Long 
Island, nearly opposite the City of New York, a number of prison ships, on board 
of which it was the fate of Americans who were prisoners of war to be placed. 

" The principal of these were the 'Jersey,' the 'John," the ' Scorpion, " the 
' Strumbolo,' and the 'Hunter.' From these the remains of the prisoners who 
died were removed from time to time, and deposited on the adjacent shores of 
the Wallabout to the number of about 12,000. The remains of these unfortunate 
patriots tvere thrown into shallow pits, with scarcely covering enough to protect 
them from the elements. " The remains of most of them have within a few 
years been removed and deposited in a tomb at Fort Greene, Brooklyn. 

LONG ISLAND SUBURBS. 

Long Island, a strip of land averaging 15 miles in width and over 100 in 
length, containing 1,682 square miles, is washed on its northern shore by the 
billows of the Long Island Sound, and on its southern by those of the Atlantic 
Ocean. Here are to be found numerous sea-bathing resorts and inlets, abounding 
in many kinds of fish and sea-fowl in abundance. Most parts of the Island are 
reached by railroad or steamer. 

Coney Island is the nearest popular resort for sea-bathing and a fair sniff of 
the Atlantic to the masses of New York, and is thronged for seven months of the 
year. It is reached by horse-car from Brooklyn ferry, or by steamer from New 
lork. Fort Hamilton is situated on a commanding bluff at the Narrows, and 
near by are Bath and Bay Ridge, with fine residences, either of which are reached 
by the Fort Hamilton line of cars. Still further east are Rockaway and Far 
Rockaway. The latter has several large hotels, affords a fine ocean sail from 
New York, and has the finest surf -bathing in the world. 

Jamaica is an old town with fine residences, 10 miles from New York, 
reached by railroad. Jamaica Bay, a few miles south, is a large body of water. 

Hempstbad is a populous old village with fine churches and schools. Near 
by are the plains recently purchased by Alex. T. Stewart, on which he is building 
a town, called Garden City. A railroad is being built to this locality from 
Bay Ridge. 

Flushing is a charming town, situated on Flushing Bay, and may be reached 
by car from Hunter's Point, or by steamer from Peck Slip. It contains about 
15,000 inhabitants. 

Bay Side, four miles from Flushing, is noted for rich scenery, and famous for 
its clam bakes and chowder in primitive style. 

College Point and Whitestone, situated on Long Island Sound, are de- 
lightful places of resort. 

RosLYN, at the head of Hempstead Harbor, is a thriving village, with natural 
scenery of rugged beauty. The place contains an eminence 319 feet high. In 
this village the first paper-mill in the State was erected. Several literary charac- 
ters of note reside here. 



264 NEW YORK AS IT IS. 

MARATIME DEFENSES FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW YORK 
BAY AND HARBOR. 

On entering the Lower Bay of New York from the ocean, and approaching 
Sandy Hook, the immense Government works are seen, which are being con- 
structed on a scale for strength and durability that will surpass any fortress on 
the Atlantic coast. Next are passed Fort Lafayette and Fort Hamilton, the 
latter being situated on the west end of Long Island. Opposite these, on Staten 
Island, are Fort Richmond and Fort Tompkins — adjoining these are several. 
strong water batteries ; these, with Fort Hamilton, command the approaches to 
the " Narrows," here about one mile wide. 

The Upper Bay contains several Islands well adapted for fortifications. 

Governor's Island, about two-thirds of a mile from the Battery or Castle 
Garden, is the largest ; it contains 72 acres, where is stationed a military garrison. 
Here are located Fort Columbus, a large star-shaped fortification, and Castle 
Willam, a three-story round tower, 60 feet high, and 600 feet in circumference, 
and mounts over 100 heavy guns. 

Bedlow's Island, lying west of Governor's Island, is occupied by Fort Wood, 
another strong fortification. It can mount 80 guns, and garrison 350 men . 

Ellis' Island, near by, is owned by the United States Government, where 
stands Fort Gibson. 

The above six points, on which are fortifications, command the approaches to 
New York through the Lower and Upper Bays from the Atlantic Ocean. The 
Brooklyn Navy Yard could also afford a floating battery suflQcient to repel any 
foreign foe. 

Fort Schuyler, situated on Throgg's Neck, at the entrance of the East 
River into Long Island Sound, is a strong fortification, built of granite and earth- 
works, and mounts over 300 gnns. This, and the fortress at Willett's Point, 
opposite, serve as a defence from an attack on the city through the Sound. Here 
are located the principal Engineer Depot and Torpedo School of the United States 
Army. It is also a place of deposit for surplus government stores, which have 
accumulated in large quantities since the late war. 

At Hallett's Point, near Hell Gate, the Government has been for several 
years making excavations and blasting rock, with the view of removing the Hell 
Gate obstructions — thus affording a safe approach to New York harbor through 
Long Island Sound and the East River for ships and steamers of large size — 
thereby greatly increasing the commercial advantages of the Port of New York. 
As a Military and Naval Station, New York exceeds any other place on the 
Atlantic Coast, and in case of a foreign war, could be rendered impregnable. 




NEW YORK FROM GOVERNOR'S ISLAND. 



CITIES AND VILLAGES. 



265 



CITIES AND VILLAGES, 

"WITHIN A RADIUS OP FIFTEEN MILES OF THE CITY HALL, 



NEW YORK. 



NORTS. 




New York and Westchester Co., 
via Steamboat and Railroad. 

Cities, <&c. Miles. 

Manhattan ville* 8 

Washington Heights 9 

Spuyten Dujn^il* 12 

King's Bridge* 

Riverdale* 13 

Mount St. Vincent 14 

YoNKERS* (Westchester County)-. 16 

Harlem 7 

Mott Haven* 8 

Montrose 8i 

Morrisania* 9 

High Bridge* 10 

Tremont* -- 11 

Fordham* 12 

Williams' Bridge 14 

Woodlawn* 13 

Mount Vernon, * W. Co 15 

West Farms* 12 

Fairmount 13 

Mount Hope 12 

Bronxville,* W. Co 13 

Westchester,* " 12 

City Island,* " 15 

Connerville, " 14 

Schuylerville 13 

Fort Schuyler 14 

l^ Steamers run from Fulton Ferry, 
E. R. , to Astoria, Harlem, &c. ; also, 
from North River side to Yonkers, &c. 



EAST. 

Long Island. 
Cities, &c. 

Brooklyn* ^ 

Williamshurgh* 1 

Green Point* 1| 

Hunter's Point 2 

Long Island City* 4 

Ravenswood* 5 

Astoria* 6 

Hell Gate 7 

Woodside* 6 

Winfield* 7 

Newtown* ■ 8 

Maspeth* 6 

FlusJiing* 11 

College Point* 13 

Whitestone* 14 

Willett's Point 15 

Bay Side* 14 

Ridgewood* 6 

East New York* 6 

Clarenceville 7 

Woodhaven* ___ 8 

Jamaica* 12 

Queens* 14 

Springfield* 14 

Valley Stream* .' 15 

Rockaway* 16 

Bay Ridge* 4 

Flatbush* 5 

Flatlands* 7 

Canarsie* 8 

New Utrecht* 9 

Gravesend* 10 

Fort Hamilton* 9 

Bath 10 

Coney Island 14 



* Post-Offices. 



266 



NEW YOKE AS IT IS. 



SOVTH. 

Staten Island, 

Via Steamboat and Railroad. 

Miles. 

Castleton^ 6 

Tompkinsville* 1 : 6 

Edgewater, or Stapleton* 7 

Vanderbilt's Landing 7i 

Clifton 8 

Fort Richmond 9 

Richmond* 13 

Middletown 12 

New Dorp* 14 

Springville 14 

Eltingville 15 

New Brighton^ 6 

West New Brighton* 

Mariner's Harbor* 7 

Sailor's Snug Harbor 7 

Factoryrille 8 

Port Bichmond* 9 

Elm Park 10 

Chelsea 15 

J^" Steam ferry boats run from 
Whitehall Slip, near the Battery, and 
from foot of Dey Street, for the differ- 
ent Landings on Staten Island, con- 
necting with the Staten Island Hailroad. 

Steamers run to Bergen Point and 
Newark, N. J., passing through New- 
ark Bay. 



New Jersey. 

Jersey City 1 

Communipaw 2 

Claremont 3 

Greenville* 4 

Pamrapo 5 

Bayonne* 6 

Centreville 7 

Bergen Point* 8 

Elizabethport 11 

Elizabeth* 13 

HOBOKEN* 2 

West Hoboken 4 

Newark* 9 

Waverly 11 

Irvington* 13 

Springfield :. 14 

Orange* 13 

East Orange* 12 

South Orange* 15 

Bloomfield* 11 

Montclair* 13 

Belleville* 10 

Acquackennock IS 

Rutherford Park* 9 

Passaic* 11 

Clifton 13 

Paterson* 16 

Carlstadt* 9 

Woodridge* 10 

Lodi* 12 

Hackensack* 13 

New Bridge* -- 15 

New Durham* : 6 

Ridgelield 9 

Leonia* 12 

Englewood* 14 

Highland 15 

Weehawken* 4 

Guttenbergh* 5 

Bull's Ferry 6 

Fort Lee* 10 



* Post-Offices 



CITIES AND VILLAGES 

FIFTEEN MILES AROUND NEW YORK, 



New York to Elizabeth, N. J., via Central Railroad of New Jersey. 

Leaving New York from the foot of Liberty street, a steam ferry boat con- 
veys passengers to Jersey City, one mile. 



Communipaw, 23^ miles ; here is a 
flourishing settlement forming part 
of Jersey City, and the point where 
diverges the Newark and New York 
Kailroad. 

Claremont, 3 miles, lies upon the 
high, wooded ridge, a short distance 
west of the railroad. A short distance 
beyond Claremont, the railroad crosses 
the Morris Canal. 

Greenville, A^ miles, is handsomely 
situated, overlooking New York and 
Newark Bays, and in the distance may 
be seen the Orange Mountains on the 
west, and the shores of Long Island 
and the Narrows, alive with craft. 
A horse railroad runs from this place to 
Montgomery street, Jersey City. 

Pamrapo, 5^ miles, forms the third 
ward of the City of Bayonne, It is 
handsomely situated and abounds in 
eligible sites for suburban homes. 

BAYONNE, 6 miles, is a flourishing 
city containing about 5,000 inhabitants, 
being incorporated in March, 1870. Its 
avenues stretch in a magnificent sweep 
from Jersey City line to Kill von Kull, 
on the south ; its flagged sidewalks ex- 
tend in all directions as far as the eye 
can reach; its private and public build- 
ings are most of them models of beauty 
and tastefulness. 

Centreville, 7 miles, is another sta- 
tion in the City of Bayonne, where are 
many fine residences. 

Bergen Point, 8 miles, is the most 



densely populated section of Bay- 
onne, comprising the first and fourth 
wards of the city, and long famous as a 
Summer resort for New Yorkers. The 
streets are here wide, well paved, and 
kept in fine condition, while the beauty 
of dwellings and public edifices gives as- 
surance that here both wealth and cul- 
ture reside. 

Elizabethport, 10^ miles, is a flourish- 
ing marine town, lying on Staten Island 
Sound, and forming part of the City of 
Elizabeth. Its growth within the past 
few years has been marvellous. Here 
are immense coal wharves, where are 
deposited five million tonnage annually, 
and give it a prominence as a commer- 
cial point. From Elizabethport runs 
the Perth Amhoy and Elizabethport Rail- 
road, 12 miles in length. 

ELIZABETH, 13 miles, is a flourish- 
ing city which contained, in 1870, 
20,832 inhabitants. Here is a Court 
House, a number of Churches and 
other public buildings, many of which 
are fine and costly edifices. It is an 
old town, first settled in 1664, being 
named Elizabeth Town, in honor of 
Sir James Casteret's beautiful wife. 

Here crosses the New York and 
Philadelphia line of railroad, controlled 
by the Pennsylvania Railroad, while 
westward runs the Central Railroad of 
New Jersey, extending to Easton, Penn. 
A new line of railroad will soon be con- 
structed, on this line, through to Phila- 
delphia, connecting with the Pennsyl- 
vania Northern Railroad. 



2Q8 



NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



NEW YORK TO NEWARK, ORANGE, Ac, BY DIFFERENT RAIL- 
ROAD ROUTES. 

New Jersey, on account of the mildness of its climate, productive soil, healthy 
influence, and its proximity to the City of New York, has become a desirable 
and popular section of country for residence and business pursuits. The State 
is bounded on the west and south by the Delaware River and Bay, and on the 
east by the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean ; the coast line from Sandy 
Hook to Cape May extends about 120 miles. 



JSRSEY CITY, Hudson Co., N. J., 
lying opposite New York, is reached 
by several steam ferries, running day 
and night. Here the Hudson River is 
one mile in width — affording a fine 
view of the Palisades on the north, and 
the Harbor and Bay of New York on 
the south — with Staten Island and 
Long Island in the distance. Some ten 
or twelve railroads centre at Jersey 
City, running south, west and north, 
carrying daily an immense number of 
passengers to and from the City of New 
York. The City is favorably situated 
for trade and commerce, and has rap- 
idly increased in population, now con- 
taining upwards of 115,000 inhabitants. 
It is governed by a Mayor and Board 
of 12 Aldermen, and contains several 
fine public buildings — a City Hall and 
Court House, and about 60 Churches of 
different denominations ; 4 Banks, 8 
Savings Banks, 3 Insurance Companies, 
2 Gas Light Companies, Water Works 
and 6 City Railroads, besides large Rail- 
road Depots and Ferry Houses. Tay- 
lor's Hotel, near the Pennsylvania Rail- 
road Depot, is a large and well kept 
public house. 

The Ounard LiTie of Steamers run 
from their dock at Jersey City for 
Liverpool and other European ports. 

Debt, &c. , Jersey City. 
Year. Pojmlatian. Debt. Per Capita. 

1870. 85,335 $5,072,000 $58 59 
1875. 116,813 13,830,485 120 00 



Note.— In 1870, Bergen City and Hudson City 
were consolidated with Jersey City, but the 
rapid increase of the City Debt and Taxation, 
shows that fraud and corruption is spreading 
alike as in New York and Brooklyn. 



Census op Hudson County, New 
Jersey, 1875. 

Jersey City, 6 Districts. 116,813 

Hoboken, (City) 24,966 

City of Bayonne 5,836 

West Hoboken 5,219 

Kearney Township 1,401 

Town of Union 4,676 

Union Township _ _ 2,580 

North Bergen 3,928 

Weehawken 603 

Total 170,859 

The City of Hoboken, one mile 
north of Jersey City, is a place of grow- 
ing importance, being closely connected 
with the City of New York by two 
steam ferries. The City now contains 
a population of 24,966. It has been a 
favorite resort and place of residence, 
having delightful grounds and walks in 
the vicinity, near the water's edge. 
Here commences the Morris and Essex 
Railroad, running west to the Delaware 
River, opposite Easton, Penn. The 
Hamburg and Havre Steamers leave 
from their wharf at this place for 
European ports. 

NEWARK, N. J., the county seat of 
Essex County, 9 miles from New York, 
is the largest City in the State, now con- 
taining about 120,000 inhabitants. It 
has many public buildings, churches, 
hotels and fine residences ; excellent 
schools and numerous extensive manu- 
factories. Steamboats and vessels of a 
small class ascend the Passaic River to 
this place, which is closely identified 
with the City of New York. It is an 
immense thoroughfare for passengers 



CITIES AND VILLAGES. 



269 



going south and west, trains leaving 
every few minutes for various points. 

The City of Orange, four or five 
miles from Newark, is a charming 
locality, containing about 10,000 inhab- 
itants. Here are numerous churches, 
schools and fine residences, surrounded 
by an exceedingly healthy section of 
the country. Llewellyri Park, lying on 
the north, is a most delightful place of 
residence during warm weather, when 
the cool air descends from the surround- 
ing highlands, the whole Park being 
ornamented with shade trees, drives and 
walks. The Orange Mountains rise on 
the west and north, affording protec- 
tion from the prevailing winds of Win- 
ter, while it catches the sea breezes 
which prevail in Summer. 

East Orange, with its 6,000 inhabi- 
tants, and South Orange, about half the 
size, are also finely situated and are 
fashionable places of residence, con- 
taining many beautiful dwellings, sur- 
rounded by all the desired comforts of 
a city and country life. 

West Orange, containing 2,800 in- 
habitants, is another fine town. 

Further westward, toward Morris- 



town, are a succession of villages and 
fine country residences, affording homes 
of a most charming character. 

Belleville, 10 miles from New York, 
lying north of Newark, is a charming 
place of Summer residence. 

Bloomfield, Essex Co., 12 miles from 
New York, containing 4,000 inhabi- 
tants, is another delightful place of 
residence. 

Mount Clair, 14 miles from New 
York, is reached by railroad. This is 
a flourishing village with many fine 
residences. Population, 4,000. 

Waverley, about 2 miles south of 
Newark, is a fine situation, surrounded 
by an agricultural district, where are 
located the grounds belonging to the 
State Agricultural Society. 

The City of Elizabeth, 15 miles from 
New York, by the Pennsylvania Rail- 
road, is also reached by the New Jer- 
sey Central Railroad. This is a flourish- 
ing city, closely connected with the 
City of New York by two lines of rail- 
road. A Boulevard, 200 feet in width, 
extends from Elizabeth to Newark, 5 
miles, affording a delightful drive dur- 
ing pleasant weather. 

NEW YORK TO PATERSON, N. J., ma ERIE RAILWAY. 

Leaving New York from the foot of Chambers Street, or Twenty-Third Street, 
a steam ferry boat, conveys passengers to the commodious Depot on the New 
Jersey side. The passenger cars are luxurious and roomy, the track being 
broad gauge. By means of a long tunnel a very level line is afforded across the 
Jersey Meadows and the Hackensack River. 

In addition to the Erie Railway, which forms one of the trunk lines of the 
country, the Nbrihern Railroad of JSTew Jersey diverges from the main line west 
of Hoboken and runs through Mio Durham, Oranton, Ridgefield, Engleicood, 
Highland, Norwood, Tajjpan, and Piermont to New Yoi% 29 miles, passing 
through a succession of villages, situated back of the Palisades, affording de- 
lightful Summer resorts. 

The Hackensack Railroad is another branch of the Erie Railway running 
through Carlstadt, Woodridge, Hackensack, New Milford, Hillsdale and other vil- 
lages, to Rockland County, N. Y. A branch railroad also extends to fjodi, N. J., 
affording altogether easy and rapid access to the city of New York. 



270 



NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



Rutherford Park, 9 miles from New 
York, is tlie first stopping place of im- 
portance on the line of the Erie Railway. 
Here is a beautiful settlement where is a 
good Hotel, and several Summer board- 
ing houses. The scenery and drives in 
the vicinity of Rutherford Park are 
much admired, being in the vicinity of 
the Passaic River. 

Hackensack, 13 miles, the capital 
of Bergen Co,, N. J., lies north of the 
line of the Erie Railway. It is ap- 
proached by railroad, extending north- 
ward. This is a flourishing village, 
containing about 9,000 inhabitants. 

Passaic, 12 miles, is a flourishing vil- 
lage, numbering about 5,000 inhabi- 
tants. Here are two well-kept hotels, 
besides private boarding-houses, which 
are usually thronged during warm 
weather. Contains several fine church 
edifices, and a number of elegant pri- 
vate residences. 

Clifton, 13 miles, is another delight- 
ful village, where is a good public house 
called the Clifton Grove Hotel ; also, the 
Willoio Park Hotel. 

Lake View, 14^ miles, is pleasantly 
situated on a rising slope of ground 
which overlooks the Passaic River and 
Dundee Lake. It contains a hotel and 



the usual proportion of private families, 
who will accommodate Summer board- 
ers. It is within the city limits of 
Paterson, and contains many handsome 
villas situated on the avenues which 
lead to the city. 
PATERSON, 16 miles, is a flourishing 
manufacturing city, where health and 
comfortable residences are to be found. 
Population in 1870, 33,579. In the. 
heart of the city are the famed Falls of 
the Passaic, only inferior to Niagara in 
grandeur and sublimity. Visitors will 
also find much to admire and instruct 
them in an inspection of the various 
industries — the silk mills, the locomo- 
tive works and the numerous factories 
which have tnade Paterson famous the 
world over. There are here eight or 
ten churches of different denomina- 
tions, and three first-class hotels ; also, a 
number of w^ell-kept private boarding- 
houses. The Delaware and Lacka- 
wanna Railroad runs through Paterson, 
and the Paterson and Newark Railroad 
runs south, while the Erie Railroad ex- 
tends northwest through Rockland and 
Orange counties, w^hen the Delaware 
River is reached at Port Jervis ; thence 
crosses into Pennsylvania, and extends 
to Dunkirk, Buffalo and Niagara Falls. 



EXCURSIONS DOWN THE BAY TO CONEY ISLAND, &o. 



Coney Island w^as for many years 
tne leading^sea-side resort. It is still 
patronized *by crowds that indulge in 
its most excellent surf-bathing. It is 
reached by steamboat or by the Brook- 
lyn horse-cars that pass Greenwood 
Cemetery. 

RocKAWAY, on the South Shore of 
Long Island, is growing rapidly as a 
fashionable resort, and is reached by 
steamboat or steam-car. 

The most charming of all is a trip of 
twenty-four miles to Long Branch, a 
sail of one hour by steamboat to Sandy 
Hook, thence by steam-car twenty min- 
utes to the famous watering-place and 
Summer capital of the Metropolis. 



Many wealthy persons here have fine 
residences. As you journey you pass 
the Battery, Castle Garden, Governor's 
Island, Fort Lafayette, Fort Hamilton, 
and Sandy Hook Lighthouse to the left, 
and Staten Island, Fort Wadsworth, 
Quarantine, and Navesink Light-house 
to the right. After a surf -bath and a 
promenade among the elite, inhaling the 
sea breezes, you are fully prepared to 
do justice to the viands furnished by 
any of the numerous first-class hotels 
that line the bluff for nearly two miles. 
Of late years. Long Branch has become 
the semi-capital of the nation, the Pres- 
ident of the United States making this 
his Summer residence. 



CITIES AND VILLAGES. 



271 



New York Harbor or Bay.— A 
fine view of the Harbor and Bay may be 
Obtained by a round trip on a Staten Is- 
land Ferry-boat, occupying about an 
hour. A more extended trip, passing 
Bergen Point through the Kills and 
Newark Bay, is furnished by steamer 
running to Newark. 

Keyport, noted for its oysters and 
fishing, Highlands for its large hotels 
and commanding view, and Red Bank 



in its quiet beauty on the Navesink 
River, are places of interest easily 
reached by steamboat. 

During the Summer the daily excur- 
sions to the Fishing Banks (see adver- 
tisements in the New York morning 
papers) are very popular, in which you 
pass out on to the broad expanse of the 
Ocean, ten or twenty miles from the 
New Jersey shore, and it often happens 
that the beneficial effects of sea-sick- 
ness is experienced. 



STATEN ISLAND SUBURBS. 



State^ Island, an oval-shaped tract 
of land 14 miles long and 8 miles 
broad, containing 58^ square miles, is 
situated from 6 to 20^ miles southwest 
of New York city, and is washed on 
all sides by salt water, being surrounded 
by New York Bay, Raritan Bay and 
Staten Island Sound. The adjacent 
waters of the bays abound with oysters 
and fish, the trade of which afford the 
staple occupation of thousands dwel- 
ling on the island. A ferry boat runs 
hourly from the foot of Whitehall 
street to the three principal points, the 
first of which is the 

Quarantine Landing, so called 
because formerly the location of the 
New York quarantine buildings. It 
is a charming location for private re- 
sidences. 

Edgewater (Stapleton), This is a 
mile or two further down, and is the 
largest village on the island, containing 
some manufactories and a shot tower. 
Around its suburbs are many beautiful 
residences overlooking the New York 
Bay. The " Seamen's Fund and Re- 
treat," established by the Legislature, 
and a building for indigent mothers, 
widows and children of seamen, are 
situated on very sightly locations here, 
and will well repay a visit. 

Vanderbilt's Landing, just below 



the former, is the point of connection 
between the ferry of the Staten Island 
Railroad, which runs to Tottenville. 
Still further down are the United States 
fortifications, Richmond and Tomp- 
kins. 

Richmond, the county-seat, stands in 
a rich agricultural district, and is 
reached by stage. 

North Shore. 

Another steam ferry line from Dey 
street. North River (Pier 19), runs along 
the northern shore several times daily 

New Brighton is a large village, 
with much fashionable society, where 
is located a first-class hotel. 

Sailors' Snug Harbor. —This is 
another charming spot, where stands a 
fine edifice for the abode of disabled 
seamen. 

Bergen Point, a delightful Summer 
resort, lies opposite on the New Jersey 
shore. 

Port Richmond is a large and hand- 
some village, and has been the centre 
of considerable manufacture. In its 
suburbs are rare pleasure grounds, to 
which New York excursion parties 
gladly resort. 

Elm Park is reached also by the 
North Shore FeiTy after a sail of an 
hour. 



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NEW YOEK AS IT IS. 



WESTCHESTER SUBURBS. 



Westchester is, and must ever con- 
tinue, one of the most celebrated coun- 
ties of the Empire State, much of it 
being historic ground, where were 
enacted many of the important events 
of the Revolutionary War. Its prox- 
imity to the Metropolis, the beauty of 
its scenery bordering on Long Island 
Sound — skirted its entire length by the 
finest river in the world and threaded by 
railroads, its surface dotted with towns 
and palatial residences, rendering it 
one of the most desirable and pictur- 
esque sections of the Empire State. 

The New Haven Bailroad runs across 
the southern portion of the county, and 
has several charming villages on its 
line, among which are Rye, New Ro- 
chelle, Mamaroneck, and Port Chester. 
The Harlein Railroad runs about mid- 
way and diagonally through the county, 
and has fine villages all along the route. 
The principal ones are Mount Vernon, 



Tuckahoe and White Plains. The 
New York, Boston and Montreal Rail- 
road runs midway between the Har- 
lem and Hudson River R.R. , and crosses 
Croton Lake. But the chief attractions 
of Westchester are spread along the 
bank of the Hudson River, where 
nearly every eminence is surmounted 
by a paradise of beauty and fragrance.' 
A strip of country one mile wide, 
stretching from Spuyten Duyvel to 
Sing Sing, contains more of taste, cul- 
ture and wealth than any rural district 
of its size on the continent. 

The Hudson River RaiVfoad runs 
along the western part of the county, 
within sight of the noble Hudson, pass- 
ing Yonkers, Dobb's Ferry, Irvington, 
Tarrytown, Sing Sing, Croton and 
Peekskill, where it enters the "High- 
lands," passing West Point, situated on 
the opposite side of the river. 



Excursions on the East River and Long Island Sound. 



The steamboat excursion to Flushing 
and other landings on the Long Island 
shore are delightful during warm weath- 
er. On leaving the steamboat land- 
ing on the East River, near Fulton Fer- 
ry, you at once feel the invigorating 
breeze — passing the United States Navy 
Yard, situated on Wallabout Bay, where 
may usually be seen vessels of war of a 
large class, moored near the Brooklyn 
shore. As the steamer rounds Corlear's 
Hook, a fine view is obtained of the 
Ship Yards on the New York shore. 
Williamsburcjh, Hunter's Point, and Long 
Island City are passed on the right. 

BlackioelV s Island, lying in the East 
River, is attached and belongs to the 
City of New York ; here are situated 
the Penitentiary, the Almshouse and 
the Lunatic Asylum, all of which are 
usually thronged with inmates. 



Astoria, 6 miles from the City of 
New York, forming part of Long Is- 
land City, is pleasantly situated on 
East River, being connected with the 
City by a steam ferry, called the Hell 
Gate Ferry. On the north may be seen 
the village of Harlem, and the mouth of 
Harlem River. 

Hell-Gate, sometimes called Hurl- 
Oate, is a narrow and dangerous strait 
in the East River, 7 miles above New 
York. Soon the channel widens and a 
beautiful stretch of the East River is 
passed, 

Two small islands called The Brothers 
are next passed, and then Biker's Island, 
lying at the mouth of Flushing Bay. 

FLUSHING, 12 miles, is a large and 
flourishing town containing upwards of 
15,000 inhabitants. Here are several 
good hotels and boarding-houses ; also. 



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EXCURSIONS ON THE HUDSON EIVER. 



273 



churches, academies and schools, to- 
gether with many fine residences. It 
can be speedily reached by railroad or 
steamboat. 

College Point, situate on the east 
side of Flushing Bay, is a place of con- 
siderable resort. 

Whitestone, 14 miles, and Willet's 



Point, 15 miles, are both pleasantly 
situated on Long Island. A steamer 
runs several times daily from New 
York to all the above points. 

Roslyn, Glen Cow and Oyster Bay, 
and other resorts on the north shore of 
Long Island, can be easily reached hj 
railroad and steamers. 



EXCURSIONS ON THE HUDSON RIVER. 



From New York to West Point. 



The noble Hudson, the pride of every 
New Yorker, affords the most delight- 
ful excursions imaginable. Starting 
from any of the steamboat landings on 
the west side of the City, you are at 
once favored with the grandest scenery 
imaginable. Hoboken, Weehawken and 
Fort Lee are passed on the New Jersey 
shore, while the island of New York, 
with its palatial residences, lies to the 
east of the upward-bound steamer, ex- 
tending to Spuyten Duyvel Creek, 13 
miles from the Battery. 

The Palisades are the next great ob- 
ject of interest, rising perpendicular 
some two or three hundred feet from 
the water's edge. Then comes a suc- 
cession of cities and villages with costly 
suburban residences. 

An excursion to High Bridge is one 
of the finest trips on this Island. It is 
reached by steam-car from Forty-second 
street, by steamboats from Fulton Fer- 
ry and Harlem Bridge, or by carriage 
through Central Park. The view from 
this lofty observatory is enchanting. 
Returning by carriage, one may stop at 
the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum ; or, 
by making a detour westward, one may 
see the New York Juvenile Asylum, at 
176th street, pass over Washington 
Heights (the finest part of the island in 
the Summer) to the largest institution 
in the country for the educating of the 
deaf and dumb, to the Colored Orphan 
Asylum, and return by the Boulevard. 

Another rare excursion is to the 



Islands of the East River. To visit 
them, go to the office of the Commis- 
sioners of Charities and Corrections, 
corner Eleventh street and Third av- 
enue, and obtain a permit, then to foot 
of East Twenty-sixth street, and take 
steamer to BlackwelVs Island, Ward's 
Island, and BandalVs Island. Still fur- 
ther up the river is Harfs Island and 
the School Ship. 

Manhattanville, lying on the island 
of New York, about one mile and a half 
west of Harlem, is easily approached by 
the Hudson River Railroad, and Eighth 
avenue horse cars. 

Fort Washington, two miles north 
of Manhattanville, is elevated 238 feet 
above the river, being the highest point 
on the island of New York, The old 
fort was captured by the British and 
Hessians, in the disastrous campaign of 
1776, when some two or three thousand 
Americans were either killed or taken 
captive, and thrown into the prison- 
ships at the Wallabout Bay, Brooklyn, 
where the United States now have an 
extensive Navy Yard. 

Fort Lee, on the Jersey shore, 9 
miles from New York, is a place of con- 
siderable interest, and between it and 
that city a steam ferry-boat plies several 
timesdaily. The site of the old fort is on 
the brow of the Palisades, a short dis- 
tance from the river, and elevated about 
300 feet above it. It was surrendered 
to the British in 1776, immediately after 
the capture of Fort Washington. 



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NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



YONKERS, 16 miles, is a new and 
growing city on the banks of the Hud- 
son. It contains 20, 000 inhabitants, with 
costly churches and fine residences. 
Here all the enjoyments of city and 
country life can be indulged in by the 
fashionable portion of the community. 

Hastings and Dobb's Ferry lie on 
the Westchester shore, while opposite 
is Piermont and Nyack, in Rockland 
County. 

Irvirigton, Tarrytown, Sing Sing and 
PeeksMl are all passed before coming 
to the "Highlands." 

West Point, 53 miles, with its Na- 
tional Academy, is a place of fashion- 
able resort, where is a well-kept hotel. 
Here the scenery is truly grand and 
magnificent. 

During the season of navigation on 
the Hudson, which usually extends 
from the middle of March to the mid- 
dle of December, numerous steamboats 
leave the city of New York every morn- 
ing and evening for various places on 
both shores of the river, connecting 
with railroad lines of travel. 

Steamers of the largest class, nowhere 
excelled for speed or comfort, run 



through to Albany and Trot, about 
150 miles, in ten or twelve hours run- 
ning time ; others touch at the princi- 
pal cities and villages on the way, to 
land and receive passengers. Usual 
through fare, $3, including berths in 
the night boats ; berths in state room, 
$1.10 extra. 

By far the most interesting portion 
of this noble river is embraced in the 
trip to West Point and Newburgh, 
60 miles distant, passing the Palisades 
— Tappan and Haverstraw bays — the 
"Highlands," and entering the bay of 
Newburgh, here presenting to the be- 
holder a most interesting and grand 
view of river and mountain scenery, 
being deeply connected with stirring 
events of the war of the Revolution. 

The Hudson Biver Bailroad, extend- 
ing to Albany, 145 miles, runs along the 
east bank of the river, passing through 
all the villages and landings, affording 
the most speedy means of conveyance 
to Peekskill, West Point and Fishkill, 
situated opposite Newburgh, with 
which it is connected by a steam ferry, 
thus presenting two modes of convey- 
ance to the tourist. 



The Grand Central Railroad Depot, corner Fourth Avenue and Forty- 
second Street, is the terminus of the Hudson Biver Bailroad, New York and Har- 
lem Railroad and the New York and New Haven Bailroad, all being important 
lines of travel running east, north and west, connecting with other railroads 
running in almost every direction through the New England States, Canada 
and the Western States, connecting with steamers running on the St. Law- 
rence River and the Great Lakes of Ameri^'a. 



CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY 



OF THE 



Principal Mercantile Houses 

MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENTS, 

IMPORTERS, AGENTS, &c., 

Engaged in Business in the City of New York, 
ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED. 



This List is unavoidably incomplete, as many Firms were 

not called on, and others declined having their 

names inserted on the terms proposed. 



i^fe fork. 

1876. 



INTELLIGENCE, HONESTY AND WEALTH. 



While engaged in the arduous duty of compiling "New York as It Was 
and as It Is," it lias been made apparent that there is sufficient Intelligence, Honr 
esty and Wealth in the community, if rightly applied, to correct all the great evils 
under which the Metropolis of the Empire State is laboring at the present time. 
The community may be said to be divided into four separate classes, standing 
aloof from each other in social life — the wealthy, the middle class, the indus- 
trious laboring poor, and the intemperate and ignorant poor — all being equally 
privileged as regards citizenship. 

The unprincipled wealthy portion, of all parties, who, when in power, rob 
the public, and the degraded poor are the two portions of the community to be 
feared. They are usually found to work together for party objects, one supply- 
ing the capital for election purposes and the other the votes, in order to secure 
power. Such at the present time is the working of our republican institutions, 
as exists in Municipal, State and National affairs, the honest portion of the 
community being deprived of their rights and voice in government by being 
thus overruled. 

The only remedy left is the combination of the people in one party, consisting 
of the wealthy, the middle class and the intelligent laborer, uniting for self-de- 
fence, irrespective of nationality, as an independent party throughout the 
Union, and endeavor at once to stop the tendency toward corrupt legislation 
and robberyc 

In order to perpetuate this system it will be necessary to introduce a " Civil 
Service Reform ;" also have City, State and National officers elected for longer 
periods than at present — say for two, four or six years — incumbents being subject 
to removal from office for misdemeanors. Adopt this plan, and our political 
evils, which are a disgrace to the nation, would iu a great measure be prevented 
— punishing all defaulters who are office-holders by sending them to a penal 
colony, to be established by the National Government. Bepuhlican Institutions 
can only he perpetuated by Intelligence and Honesty. 



Classified Business Directory, 

ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY. 



Agencies, Commercial and Mer- 
cantile. 

Bradstreet, J. M, & Son, 279 B'way and 

57 Reade st. 
Dun, Barlow & Co., 335 B'way and 80 

Wall St. 
Ferris, Garlock & Co., 335 Broadway. 
McKiLLOP & Sprague Co., 109 and 111 

Worth St. 
Retail Dealers' Protective Ass., 35 Union sq. 
Simpson & Smith, 66 Courtlandt st. 
U. S. Mercantile Reporting Co., 335 B'way. 

Assents, Advertising. 

Abbot & Co., 141 Fulton and 20 Ann st. 
Bankers' & Brokers' Adv. Ass., 52 B'way. 
Bates & Locke, 34 Park row. 
Buys & CoflBn, 194 Broadway. 
Chisholm, Alex. Robert, 52 Broadway. 
Clegg, Charles A., Tribune Building. 
Conent, Hermon & Co., 52 Broadway. 
D AUGHT & Co., 191 Fulton st. 
Davis, Bernard S., 165 Broadway. 
Deyo, Peter K., 7 Beekman st., up stairs. 
Faulkner T. G., 126 Fulton st. 
FuUer, J. W., 338 Broadway. 
Hitchcock, Henry M., 769 Broadway. 
Maten, Charles & Co., 37 Park row 
Peaslee & Co., 5 Beekman st. 
Pettengill, S. M. & Co., 37 Park row. 
Railway Advertising Co., 63 Broadway. 
Richards, Joseph H., 245 Broadway. 
RowELL, George P. & Co., 41 Park row. 
Sharpe, W. W. & Co., 25 Park row. 
Soper, I. N. & Co., 27 City Hall Square. 

Agents, Patent. 

Brown & Allen, 258 Broadway. 
Burke & Fraser, 37 Park row. 
Hazeltine, Lake & Co., 247 Broadway. 
Inglis, John & Co., 39 Park row. 
McLean, James P., 133 Nassau st. 
MuNN & Co. , 37 Park row. 
Munson, Albert L., 35 Pine st. 
Boeder, Henry E., 302 Broadway. 
Serrell, Lemuel W., 119 Nassau st. I 



Smith, Earle H., 302 Broadway. 
Vansantvoord & Haufl, 41 Park roWo 
Whitney, James A., 212 Broadway. 

Agents, Real Estate. 

Beekman, L. & T. H., 81 Cedar st. 
Bergen John L., 82 Broadway. 
Berrian & Duffy, 162 Broadway. 
Cruikshank, William & E. A., 68 Broadway. 
Falconer, William H. & Son, 100 Fourth av. 
Ludlow, E. H. & Co., 3 Pine st. 
Price, James, 200 Hudson st. 
Ruland & Whitney, 5 Beekman st. 
Selden, S. Colt, 39 Nassau st. 
Thompson D. & Son, 56 Wall st. 
Wilkinson, Alfred, 99 Nassau st. 

Agricultural Implements, 
Dealers in. 

Allen, R. H. & Co., 189 Water st. 
Ames Plow Co., 53 Beekman st. 
Carr & Hobson, 56 Beekman st. 
Hovey, Geo. & Son, 71 John st. 
Lamson & Goodnow Mfg. Co., 50 Beek- 
man St. 
New York Plow Co., 55 Beekman st. 
Reeves, Robert C, 185 & 187 Water st. 
Vanderbilt Brothers, 23 Fulton st. 
White, Luther C, 50 Beekman st. 

Architects. 

American Institute of Architects, 128 Bway. 
Beckwith, Arthur, 111 Broadway. 
Bragaldi, Marshall & Co., 265 Broadway. 
Cady, Josiah C, 111 Broadway. 
Davis, Alexander J., University Building. 
D'Orsay & Co., 561 Broadway. 
Duggin & Grossman, 63 E. 41st st. 
Hatch, Buckley & Smith, 229 Broadway. 
Lockwood, Rembrandt, 293 Broadway. 
Schulze & Steinmetz, 744 Broadway. 
Upjohn, Richard M., Ill Broadway. 
West & Anderson, 14 Park pi. 

Art Furniture and Decorations. 

Herter Bros., 877 Broadway. 

Sypher & Co. (Antique Goods), 593 B'dwaj. 



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Apothecaries.— See Druggists. 
Aquaria Depot. 

Greenwood & Seymour, 13 College pi. 

Artificial Flowers. 

Cormier, L. & Co., 151 Wooster st. 
Hem-ichs, Charles F. A., 31 Park pi. 
Hofheimer & Co., 494 Broadway. 
Jouard & LebatUy, 23 W. Houston st. 
Mendel & Loeb, 598 Broadway. 
Schnaler & Klein, 111 Grand st. 
Smith, Wm. W. & Co., 661 Broadway. 
White, Alansen, jr., 540 Broadway. 

Artificial liimbs. 

Bly, Douglas, 658 Broadway. 
Condell, J. & Son, 643 Broadway. 
Frees, Chauney A., 682 Broadway. 
Marks, Amasa A., 575 Broadway. 
Monroe, Joshua, 411 Canal st. 
Wickett & Bradley, 516 Broadway. 

Artists. 

Baker, George A., Association Building. 
Beard, William H., 51 West 10th st. 
Bierstadt, Albert, 51 West 10th st. 
Casilear, J. W., 51 West 10th st. 
Church Frederick E., 51 West 10th st. 
De Haas, M. F. H., 51 West 10th st. 
Durand A. B., South Orange, N. J. 
GifEord, S. R., 51 West 10th st. 
Guy, S. J., 51 West 10th St. 
Huntington^ Daniel, 49 East 20th st. 
Hart, William, Association Building. 
Hart, James M., 212 Fifth avenue. 
Irving, J. Beauvain, 51 West 10th st. 
Hicks, Thomas, 6 Astor pi. 
Hubbard, R. W., 51 West 10th st. 
Homer, Winslow, 51 West 10th st. 
Kurtz, W., Madison sq. near B'way. 
Le Clear, Thomas, 51 West 10th st. 
McEntee, Jarvis, 51 West 10th st. 
Page, William, 51 West 10th st. 
Smillie, James (engraver), Poughkeepsie. 
Smillie, James D., 212 Fifth av. 
Ward, J. Q. A., 9 West 49th st. 
Wein, Robert W., West Point, N. Y. 
Whittridge, William, 51 West 10th st. 

Artists' Iflaterials. 

Beiss & Heppe, 10 Park pi. 
Benoit A. V., 148 Fulton st. 
Devoe, F. W. & Co., 117 Fulton st. 
XeufEel & Esser, 111 Fulton st. 
Mintross, Newman E. , 1366 Broadway. 
Palm, Charles & Co., 84 Chambers st, 
Raynolds, C. T. & Co., 106 Fulton st. 
Schaus, William, 749 Broadway. 



Staab, C. P. & Co., 52 Barclay st. 
Stedwell, George H., 141 Fulton st. 
Arts, Dealers in Works of» 

Wood's Art Gallery, 826 Broadway. 
Assayers.— See Eefiners. 
Attorneys. 
Chittenden, Simon B., Jr., 145 Broadway, 
Cobb, John S., 67 WUliam st. 
Culver, E. D., 114 Nassau st. 
Hall, Abraham O., 291 Broadway. 
Jordan, Philip, 132 Nassau st. 
Merrill, Nelson, 4 Pine st. 
O'Conor, Charles, 59 Wall st. 
Smith, Walter E., 52 Broadway, (Room43,> 
Tilden, Samuel J., 12 Wall st. 
Townsend, John J., 76 Wall st. 
Tracy, Charles, 50 WaU st. 
Tracy, William, 128 Broadway. 
Waddington, James, 149 Broadway. 
Waterbury, Nelson J., 152 Broadway. 
Webster, Sydney, 29 Nassau st. 

Auctioneers. 

Agar, James, 59 New Bowery. 

Bangs, Merwin & Co. (books, etc.), 656 
Broadway. 

Betts, Gerard & Co., 7 Old slip. 

Bissell, Wells & Millet, 15 Murray st. 

Bleecker, A. J. & Son, 9 Pine st. 

Burdett & Dennis, 29 Burling slip. 

Camp, Hugh N., 152 Broadway. 

Cole's, James, Son, 389 Fulton st., B'klyn. 

Draper, John H. & Co., 1112 Pearl st. 

Hadden & Co., 33 Chambers st. 

Halstead & Peters, 83 Warren st. 

Harnett, Richard V. , 111 Broadway. 

Haydock & Brother, 6 College pi. 

Hoffman, L. M., Son & Co., Ill Pearl st. 

Johnson, Jeremiah, Jr. , 21 Park row. 

Kennelly, William, 6 Pine st. 

Kobbe & Ball, 87 Leonard st. 

Leavitt, Geo. A. & Co, (books, etc.), Clin- 
ton Hall, 

Ludlow, E. H. & Co,, 3 Pine st. 

Mathewson, J. & Co., 4 Pine st. 

Miller, James, 1 Pine st. 

MuUer, A. H. & Son, 7 Pine st, 

Nicolay, Albert H. & Co., 43 Pine st. 

Pells & Co., 19 Pearl St. 

Richards, A, S. & Co., 7 College pi. 

Scott, George H., 52 Pine st. 

Stevenson, V. K., Jr., 11 Pine st, 

Wilmerding, Hoguet & Co., 112 Duane st. 

Awning and Tent Makers. 

American Awning Factory, 1280 Broadway. 
Johnston, James O., 752 Broadway, 
Martin, Thomas, 276 Canal st. 



BUSINESS DIRECTORY. 



Sherman, Wm. T., 946 Broadway. 
Sykes, Henry, 604 Broadway. 
Tyler, John W., 379 Bowery. 

Axe and Edge Tool Manufacturers. 

Collins & Co., 312 Water st. 
Douglas Axe Man'f'o^Co., 298 Broadway. 
Green, R. M. & Co., lOO Chambers st. 
Pillsbury, M. M, , 85 John st. 

Bags and Bagging. 

Asten, W. B. & Co., 25 Pearl st. 
Cooper, William B., Jr., & Co., 99 Pearl st. 
David, Henry R., 17 Piatt st. 
Lawson, Jacob & Co. , 40 Whitehall st. 
New York Bagging Co., 88^ Pine st. 
Parsons, Charles H., 80 Water st. 
Todd, Joseph C. & Co., 10 Barclay st. 

Bakers. 

Boyd, Andrew A. (Ship Bread, etc.), 219 

Fulton St. 
Brown, Paul S., Third ave. cor. 9th st. 
Gilmon, J. D. & Co., 205 Greenwich st. 
Metz, Charles, 526 Greenwich st. 
Simpson, Andrew, 366 Bowery. 
Treadwells, E. & Son, 104 Warren st. 

Bank Note Companies. 

American, 142 Broadway, (see adv.) 
Continental, Greenwich st., cor. Liberty. 
National, 1 Wall st., cor. Broadway. 

Basket and \WoodenTvrare Dealers. 

Baums & Kahn, 43 Park Place. 
Burgher, John A., 68 Vesey st. 
Louderback, John A., 153 Chamber^ st. 
Robinson, Lord & Co., 147 Chambers st. 
Zinn, Charles & Co., 406 Broadway. 

Bedding, Dealers in. 

Alden, Wm. E. & Co., 246 Canal st. 
Freund, J. & Co., 339 Grand and 359 E. 

Houston St. 
Howe, Otis & Tyler, 173 Canal st. 
Kittle, S. P., 203 Canal st. 
Mellen & Co., 142 & 144 Worth st. 
National Wire Mattress Co. , 279 Sixth av. 
Schenck, James V., 183 Canal st. 
Willard & Rogers, 384 Hudson st. 

Bedstead Manufacturers. 

Baker, Henry, 189 Canal st., & 330 Seventh 

av. 
Comins, George T., 393 Canal st. 
Fisk, Russell C., 46 New Bowery. 
Kelly, John, 41 Mott st. 



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Billiard Table Manufacturers. 

Bollmann, Ferdinand, 216 William st. 
Collender, Hugh W., 738 Broadway. 
Decker, L. & Co., 154 Centre st. 
Griffith, W. H. & Co., 40 Vesey st. 
Grote, Charles, 9 Henry st. 
Phelan, George E., 36 E. 14th & 449 Wo 

41st sts. 
Rothermel, John, 1334 Third av. 

JBird Cages. 

Gunther G., 103 & 105 William st. 
Lindemann, O. & Co., 254 Pearl st. 

Birds, Dealers in. 

Bagot, Joseph, 31 Fulton st. 
Collier, John H., 78 Fulton st. 
Douglass, Thomas, 200 W. 40th st. 
Finck, Henry, 45 Avenue A. 

Blacking Manufacturers. 

Amson, Louis, & Co., 424 Broadway. 
Bartlett, H. A. & Co., 143 Chambers st. 
Joseph, I. & J. A , 15 & 17 Crosby st. 
Miller, Frank, Son & Co., 18 Cedar st. 
Restorff & Bettmann, 120 Green st. 
Sheldon, S. W. & Dunscomb, 94 Reade st. 
Turner, Joseph W., & Co., 96 John st. 
Wadelton, Joseph, 5 John st. 

Blind Manufacturers. 

Bradley & Currier, 54 & 56 Dey st. 

Hall, William & Sons, 99 Forsyth st. and 

667 First av. 
Jenkins, William H. & Son, 247 Canal st. 
Lee Box and Lumber Co., Eleventh av. 

cor 21st St. 

Block and Pump Manufacturers. 

Burlingham & Purdy, 103 Chambers st. 
Burr & Co., 31 Peck slip. 

Boat Builders. 

Blackburn David, foot Grand st. 
Everson, Jas., 453 First st., Brooklyn, E. D, 
Hoffman & Brother, 391 South st. 
Ingersoll, A. M., 156 South st. 
Roberts, Stephen, 368 and 373 South st. 

Boiler Makers. 

Andrews, Wm. D. & Bro., 414 Water st. 
Cobanks & Theall, foot Bethune st. 
Murphy, McCurdy & Warden, 74 Beach st. 
Shearman, Isaac H., 45 Courtlandt st. 



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Bookbinders. 

Alexander, Geo. W., 110 & 112 Wooster st. 
Bradstreet, J. M. & Sou, 279 Broadway. 
Francis & Loutrel, 45 Maiden lane. 
Haddon & Co., 207 Centie st. 
Hosford & Sons, 56 Cedar st. 
Patterson, George Y. , 19 Rose st. 
Russell & Banks, 23 Rose st. 
Rutter, Robert, 82 Beekman st. 



Sackmann, H. E. & Sons, 39 Centre st. 
Shaw, J. G. (Blank Books), 538 Pearl st. 
Shipman, Asa L., 29 Ann st. 
Walker, E., Sons (Estab. 1836), 55 Dey st 

Bookbinders' Stock. 

Campbell, John & Co., 164 William st. 
Griffin, H. & Sons, 64 Duane st. 
Hewitt, C. B. & Brother, 48 Beekman st. 
Rose, George L., 182 William st. 



Booksellers. 

To the Editors of the New York Evening Post is due the credit of publishing, from 
time to time, notices of eminent Booksellers and Publishers, "giving credit to whom 
credit is due," for disseminating useful knowledge to the world at large. 



Booksellers and Publisliers. 

Adams, Victor & Co., 98 William st. 

Agar, Alexander, Bookseller and Stationer, 
110 William st. 

Appleton, D. & Co., Publishers and Book- 
sellers, 551 Broadway. 

Appleton, John L., 19 Third st.,nr. B'way. 

Baker, Voorhis & Co., Law Booksellers, 66 
Nassau st. 

Banks & Bi'other, Law Booksellers, 144 
Nassau st. 

Baker, Pratt & Co., 142 Grand st. 

Butler, W. L., 33 Union sq. 

Barnes, A. S. & Co., Publishers, 111 Wil- 
liam st. 

Brentano, August, 39 Union sq. 

Bouton, J. W., Bookseller, 706 Broadway. 

Bumton, Richard, 92 Fourth av. and 298 
Broadway. 

Carlton & Co., G. W., Publishers and 
Booksellers, 192 Fifth av. 

Christern F. W., Foreign Books, 77 Univer- 
sity place. 

Carter, Robert & Bros., Theological, 530 
Broadway. 

Clark & Maynard, 5 Barclay st. 

Collins & Brother, Publishers and Book- 
sellers, 370 Broadway. 

De Witt, Robert M., Publisher, 33 Rose st. 

Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers, 18 Ann st. 

Dillingham, Charles T. , 678 Broadway. 

Diossy & Companv (Law), 86 Nassau st. 

Disturnell, John (Estab. 1829), 137 8th st. 

Dodd & Mead, Publishers, 751 Broadway. 

Dutton, E. T. & Co., Booksellers, 713 
Broadway. 

Ellis, Harley, Books and Jeweliy, 823 
Broadway. 

Feri-y, J. Milton, 76 Boweiy. 

Ford, S. B. & Co., 27 Park pi. and 24 Mur- 
ray St. 

Francis, David G., xlooKseller, 17 Astor pi. 



Gurley, Henry, Bookseller, 812 Fulton av., 
cor. Fourth av. 

Hale, E. J. <fe Son, 17 Murray st. 

Harper Brothers, Publishers, Franklin 
Square. 

Holt, Henry & Co., 25 Broad st. 

Hurd & Houghton, Publishers, 13 Astor pi. 

Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., Publish- 
ers, 138 Grand st. 

Johnson, Wilson & Co., 27 Beekman st. 

Lain & Co., 113 Fulton st. 

Leggat Brothers, Booksellers, 3 Beekman 

St. 

Lawler, Miss S. E., Fourth av. near 12th st. 

Lockwood, George R., Bookseller, 812 
Broadway. 

London Publishing Company, 17 Park pi. 

Macmillan & Co., 21 Astor pi. 

McDivitt, Campbell & Co., Law Booksel- 
lers and Publishers, 79 Nassau st. 

McGee, J. A., Catholic Books, 7 Barclay st. 

Miller, James, 647 Broadway. 

Miller Henry, Bookseller, 82 Nassau st. 

Morrell, T. H., 78 Nassau st. 

Nelson & Phillips, agents, Methodist Book 
Concern, 805 Broadway. 

Nelson, Thomas & Sons, 42 Bleecker st. 

Nash Edward W., 120 Nassau st. 

Orange Judd Company, Publishers and 
Booksellers, 245 Broadway. 

Palmer, W. C, Jr., 14 Bible House, Astor 
pi. 

Phillips & Son, 79 Fourth av. 

Pott, Young & Co.. No. 6 Cooper Union. 

Putnam, G. & Sons, Publishers and Book- 
sellers, 182 Fifth avenue. 

Pyne, John, Bookseller, 109 Nassau st. 

Radde, William, 548 Pearl st. 

Randolph, A. D. F. & Co, Booksellers, 
900 Broadway. 

Richardson, H. H., & Co., 43 Park pi. 
I Routledge, George, & Sons, 416 Broome st. 



BUSINESS DIEECTOKY. 



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Sabin, J. & Sons, Booksellers, 84 Nassau st. 

Sadlier, D. & J. & Co., Catholic Books, 31 
Barclay st. 

Schermerhorn, J. W. & Co., 14 Bond st. 

Scribner, Armstrong & Co., Publishers and 
Booksellers, 743 Broadway. 

Schmidt, L. W., German Books, 24 Bar- 
clay St. 

Sheldon & Co., Publishers and Booksellers, 
8 Murray st. 

Steiger, Ernest, 22 Frankfort st. 

Smith, Geo. W. & Co., Law Booksellers, 95 

Strong,' T. W., 599 Broadway. 

Swayne, William, 216 Fulton st., B^klyn. 

Thomas, William, Bookseller, 1107 B'way. 

Tibbals, N. & Sons, 37 Park row. 

Tredwell, Fred., 417 Fulton st., B'klyn. 

Virtue & Yorston, 12 Dey st. 

Van Nostrand, David, Publisher (Estab- 
lished 1832), 23 Murray st. 

Wells, S. R. & Co., Publishers and Book- 
sellers, 737 Broadway. 

Westerman, B. & Co., German Books, 524 
Broadway. 

Wight, James, 14 Pine st. 

Wiley, John & Son, Publishers and Book- 
sellers (Established 1831), 15 Astor place. 

Wilmer & Rogers News Co., Beekman st. 

Wood, William & Co. {Established 1815), 
27 Great Jones st. 

Worthington, R. & Co., 750 Broadway. 

Zickel, Solomon, 19 Dey st. 

Boot and Sboe Dealers. 

Alexander, Andrew, 357 Sixth av. 

Bach, J. & Sons, 30 Warren st. 

Bates, A. J. & Co., 46 Warren st. 

Benedict, Ezra, 8 Warren st. 

Claffln, Aaron & Co., 116 Church st. 

O'Neill, 1187 Broadway and 14 Fourth av. 

Porter, Day & Co., 596 Broadway. 

Ranson, W. A. & Co., 537 Broadway. 

Sears & Fitch, 12 Warren st. 

Brass Fenders, Andirons, &c. 

Lewis & Conger, 501 Sixth av., and 1306 
Broadway. 

Brass Founders. 

Donegan & Reilly, 230 West st. 
McNab & Harlin Manufacturing Co., 56 
John st 

Brewers. 
Ballantine, Peter & Sons, 134 Washington 

St. 

Ehret, George E., 92d st., cor. Third av. 
Jones, David, 619 to 637 Sixth av. 
Milbank Brothers, 70 Madison st. 
Taylor & Son, 394 Greenwich st. 



Britannia and Tin Ware. 

Boardman, L. & Son, 82 Chambers st. 
Schade, Henry, 84 John st. ' 

Broom Dealers. 

Cooley, Eli P., 394 Broome st. 
Lee, J. F., Jr., & Co., 6 Sullivan st. 
McArthur & Co., 315 Pearl st. 
Martin, Robert Y. 104 Duane st. 
Rice, Samuel Q. , 49 Fulton st. 

Brush Manufacturers. 

Beissbarth & Heppe, 10 Park pi. 
Berrien, D. &. Co., 228 Pearl st. 
Bradley & Smith, 251 Pearl st. 
Hoppel, John K., 335 Pearl st. 
Leiner, Moritz, 476 Second av. 
McArthur & Co., 315 Pearl st. 
Mount, Henry B., 359 Pearl st. 
Stabb, C. P. & Co., 52 Barclay st. 
Taylor & Perrin, 273 Pearl st. 

Buckskin Undergarments. 

Hall, D. C. & Co., 633 Broadway. 
Burglar Alarms. 

Bogart, Abraham L. , 702 Broadway. 
Chami^iou Electric, 40 W. Eighteenth st. 
Famham, Charles H., 39 Nassau st. 
Holmes Burglar Alarm Tel. Co., 571 B'way. 

Burr Mill Stones. 

Carey, Samuel, 7 Broadway. 

Charles, Richard P. , 19 South WiUiam. 

Livingston, AV. A: F., 3 Broadway. 

Button Makers. 

Douglas, Robert, 364 Broadway. 

Fuld, Julius, 406 Broadway. 

Porter Bro. & Co., 443 Broadway. 

Scovill Manufacturing Co., 419 Broome st. 

Waterbury Button Co., 27 Reade st. 

Williston, Knight & Co., 76 Worth st. 

€ards. Blank. 

Clement & Stockwell, 30 Beekman st. 
Hake, Philip, 25 Frankfort st. 
Knickerbocker Card & Tag Co. , 39 Ann st. 
Nesbitt, Geo. F. & Co., 165 to 169 Pearl st. 
Porter & Bainbridge, 33 Beekman st. 
Trier & Wolff, 190 William st. 

Cards, Playing, 

Crawford, W. L. & Co., 65 Nassau st. 

Dixon & Co. , 701 Broadway. 

Hart, Samuel & Co., 123 William st. 

Hinrichs, Charles F. A., 31 Park place. 

Kraft, George J. , 48 Maiden lane. 

Lawrence & Cohen, 123 William st. 

Manger, Victor E., 110 Reade st. 

N. Y. Consolidat'd Card Co., 123 WUliamst. 



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NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



Carpet Dealers. 

Anderson's Sons, Hiram, 334 Eighth av. 
Crossley, J. & J. W., 320 and 33^ B'way. 
Gregg, J. & Co. , 1 and 125 Bowery. 
Hyatt, George E. L., 273 Canal st. 
Knapp, Sheppard, 183 A: 185 Sixth av. 
Sloan, W. & J., 649 to 655 Broadway. 

Carriage and ^Vagoii Makers. 

Brewster & Co., Fifth av., cor. 14th st. 
Brewster, J. B. & Co., Fifth av. cor. 21st st. 
Crandall & Co. (Baby Carriages), 569 

Third av. 
Demarest, A. T. & Co., 628 & 630 B'way. 
Ham, John C, 10 to 20 E. 4th st. 
Marsh, Ezra, 18 E. 18th st. 
Wood Brothers, 740 Broadway. 

Carriage Ijaces and Trimmings. 

Bloodgood, Winfield, 2 Howard st. 
Gifford & Beach, 29 Warren st. 
Jube, John P. & Co., 97 Bowery. 
Martine, S. A. & Co., 11 Warren st. 

Cement, 

Gillet Etienne, 9 Nassau st. 
Hammill & Gillespie, 240 & 242 Front st. 
James Cement Co., 41 Dey st. 
Laurenceville Cement Co., 96 Wall st. 
Merchant, S. L. & Co., 76 South st. 
Merryweather, George, 52 William st. 
Moen's Asphaltic Cement Co., 103 Maiden 

lane. 
New York Cement Co., 5 Dey st. 
Spies, Francis A. Co., 66 South st. 

Cliemlsts, Manufacturing. 

Cooper Charles & Co., 191 Worth st. 
Kalbfleisch's Sons, M., Manufacturing 

Chemists, 55 Fulton st. 
Seely, Chas A. (consulting, &c.), 37 Park r. 

Clilnese and Japanese Goods. 

Vantine, A. A. & Co., 831 Broadway. 
Clilna, Glass and Oartlienware. 

Brundige, Rufus M., 919 B'way *& 651 6th av. 
Hadley, Charles L., 5 Cooper Union. 
Ovington's, 250 Fulton st., Brooklyn. 
Shaw, James M., 78 Chambers st. 
Wilhelm & Graef , 1158 Broadway. 

Cliop Houses. 

Farrish's " The Original," 64 John st. 
Rolfe's, Geo. B., 42 John st. 

Chiropodists. 

James, Dr. W., 756 Broadway. 



WesteiTclt, Dr. H. (refers to the most 

eminent Physicians), 852 Broadway. 
Zacharie, Dr., 27 Union sq. 

Cliromo Publlsliers. 

Anthony, E. & H. T. «& Co., 591 Broadway. 
Foerster, Edmund & Co., 645 Broadway. 
Joerg, Charles, 36 Maiden lane. 
Kaufmann, A. & Co., 366 Broadway. 

Clock and Watcli Makers. 

American Clock Co., 581 Broadway. 
Cox, John, 372 Bowery. 
Fellows, Holmes & Clapp, 21 Maiden lane. 
Giles & Wright (Manufacturers, &c.), 13 

Maiden lane. 
Howard & Co., 552 Broadway. 
Rodgers, James (Established 1818), 102 

Fulton St. 
Seth, Thomas, Sons & Co., 581 Broadway. 
Taylor, Olmstead & Taylor, 5 Bond st. 
Walter, A. & Co., 40 Maiden lane. 

Clocks and Bronzes. 

Magnin, Ve. J., Guedin & Co., 652 B'way. 
Schuyler, Hartley & Graham, 19 Maiden 
lane and 20 & 22 John st. 

Clothing, Dealers in. 

Abbott & Duyckinck. 

Argall, ThoqiasM. &Co., 314 & 316 B'way. 

Brokaw, Bros., Fourth av. opp. Cooper Un. 

Brooks Brothers, B'way cor. Bond st. 

Devlin & Co., Broadway cor. Grand & 
Broadway cor. Warren st. 

Freeman & Woodruff, 241 Broadway. 

Hodgman, D. & Co. (India Rubber), Mai- 
den lane, cor. Nassau st. 

Jessup & Co., 256 Broadway. 

Moore & Yawger, 36 Fourth av., cor. 
Astor pi. 

Raymond & Co., Fulton & Nassau sts. 

Rogers, Peet & Co. , Broadway & Broome st. 

Sackett & Miller, 6 Fourth av. 

Traphagen, Hunter & Co., 398 to 402 
Bowery. 

Wade & Cummings, 261 & 263 Eighth av. 

Commission Merchants. 

Adams, Joseph H. & Son (Hardware), 

283 Pearl st. 
Agnew, William & Sons (Tobacco), 284 

Front St. 
Barling & Davis, 46 South st. 
Bigelow, Asa, 150 Broadway. 
Bliss, Geo. C. & Co., 126 Front st. 
Talmage's Sons (Rice), 109 Wall st. 
Welch, Holmes & Clark, 383 West st. 
Wetherwill, S. P. & G. D., 13 Piatt st. 



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Copperplate Printers. 

Allen, James N., 146 Fulton st. 
Dunbar & Co., 121 Liberty st. 
Kimmol & Voigt, 254 and 2.56 Canal st. 
Lee, Homer & Co., 62 Liberty st. 
McRae, John, 108 Liberty st. 

Cotton Merchants. 

Babcock Bros. & Co., 50 Wall st. 
Bloss & Inches, 128 Pearl st. 
Smith, B. R. & Co., 44 Broad st. 
Wright, Richards & Co., 39 Broad st. 

Cotton Presses. 

Dillon, Robert, 30 Burling Slip. 
Standard Compress Cotton Co., 108 Mor- 
ton St. 
TuUy & Wilde, 20 Piatt st. 
United Power Press Co., 39 Dey st. 

Curtains, Manufacturers of 

KaufEman, A. & C, 366 Broadway. 
Solomon, B. L. & Sons, 657 and 659 B'way. 

Cutlery, Manufacturers of. 

Curley, J. & Brother, 134 & 136 Nassau st. 
Friedman & Lauterjung, 14 Warren st. 
Heinisch's, R., Sons, 301 Broadway. 
Klauberg, Carl (Established 1828), 195 Wil- 
liam St. 
Lamson Goodnow Manuf. Co., 101 Duane 

St. 

Meriden Cutlery Co., 49 Chambers st. 
New York Knife Co., 120 Chambers st. 
Northampton Cutlery Co., 45 Murray st. 
Saunders, B. & G. T., Razor Strops, etc., 7 

Astor House. 
Sellers, John & Sons, 95 John st. 
Seymore, Henry & Co., 29 Rose st. 
Tomes, Francis & Co., 6 Maiden lane. 

Dentists. 

Allen, John, 314 Fifth avenue. 
Allen, William H., 18 W. Eleventh st. 
Ambler, J. G., 25 W. Twenty-third st. 
Barlow, Edward, 471 Hudson st. 
Bronson (M. D.), Wm. A., 28 E. 13th st. 
Castle, Alex. C, 54 S. Washington sq. near 

Thompson st. 
Colton, G. Q. (Dental Association), 19 

Cooper Union. 
Dodge, J. Smith, 15 W. Twentieth st. 
Hurd, Wm. W., 31 E. Eighteenth st. 
Jarvis, Israel, 161 E. Thirty-third st. 
Kingsley N W., 25 W. Twenty- seventh st. 
Main, Stephen A., 23 W. Twenty-third st. 
Parmly, Jehial, Clinton pi. (19 W. Ninth st.) 



Wait, T. G., 45 E. Twenty-third st. 
Young, Wm. H., 409 Fulton st., Bmyn. 

Dentists' Materials. 

Biddle, John, 207 Centre st. 

Gunning, Thomas B. , 34 East 21st st. 

Johnston Brothers, 812 Broadway. 

Lockwood, Henry T., 735 Broadway. 

Pack, George J, & Co., 506 Broome st. 

Prime, Nathaniel S., 1212 Broadway. 

Raynor, Hiram M., 25 Bond st. 

White, Samuel S., Manufacturer of Arti- 
ficial Teeth, &c., Philadelphia, comer of 
Chestnut and .Twelfth sts., and Nos. 767 
and 769 Broadway, New York. 

Williams, Richard S., 907 Broadway. 

Diamonds, Dealers in. 

Bishop, Victor, 47 Nassau st. 
Bissinger, Philip, 13 John st. 
Howard & Co., 222 Fifth av. 
Humphrey, Richard, 779 Broadway. 
Randel, Baremore & Co., 58 Nassau st. 
Starr & Marcus, 22 John st. 
Taylor, Olmsted & Taylor, 5 Bond st. 

Diamond Setters. 

Aitken, Thomas, 192 Broadway. 
Bomemann, Louis, 171 Broadway. 
Deacon, Francis, 12 Maiden la. 
Friend, S., 24 John st. 
Hoemer, Heller & Bardel, 13 John st. 
Moore & Horton, 11 Maiden la. 
Zimmerman & Weill, 87 Prince st. 

Druggists. 

Blauvelt, Cornelius I. , 50 Cortlandt st. 
Carle & Strong, 153 Water st. 
Caswell, Hazard & Co., B'way cor, 24th st. 
Crawford, G. & S. & Co. (wholesale), 119 

Fulton St. 
Day, Hoagland & Stiger (wholesale), 54 

Cortlandt st. 
Ditman, A. J., Astor House, B'way cor. 

Barclay st. 
Dodd, John B., 108 Fourth av. 
Douglas, Wra. H., 423 Fulton st., B'klyn. 
Hall & Ruckel, 218 Greenwich st. 
Hartnett, Eugene, 9 Bible House. 
Hegeman & Co., 203 Broadway. 
Hudnut, Alex., 218 Broadway. 
Lehn & Fink (wholesale), 160 William st. 
Milhau, J., Sons, 183 Broadway. 
OlifEe, Wm. M. (established 1805), 6 Bowery. 
Riker, Wm. B. & Son, 353 Sixth av. 
Rushton & Co., E., Fourth av. cor. 23d st. 
Schietfelin, W, H. & Co. (wholesale), 170 

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Dry Goods, Dealers in. 

Altman, B. & Co., 331 & 333 Sixth av. 
Arnold, Constable & Co., B'way c. 19tli st. 
Bloom's, 338 & 340 Bowery. 
Claflin, H. B. & Co. (wholesale), Church 

and Worth sts. 
Conkling & Co. , 763 Broadway. 
Ehrich, J. W., 287 & 289 Eighth av. 
Garner & Co. (wholesale), 2, 4, 6 and 8 

Worth St. 
Grigy, Haskell & Co., 809 Broadway. 
Johnston, J. & C, Broadway c. E. 22d st. 
Kinzey, William, 767 & 769 Broadway. 
Lord & Taylor, 895 Broadway. 
McCreery, James & Co., B'way c. 11th st. 
Macy, K H. & Co., 14th st. c. 6th av. 
Meares, Richard, 6th av. c. 19th st. 
Miller & Grant, 879 Broadway. 
O'Neill & Co., 327 & 329 Sixth av. 
Opdyke, Ferry & Steele (wholesale), 875 

Broadway. 
Ridley, E. & Sons, 309 and 311 Grand st. 
Rodgers & Orr Brothers, 183 and 185 8th av. 
Stern Brothers, Sixth av. and W. 23d st. 
Stewart, Alex. T. & Co., Broadway, Fourth 

av., 9th and 10th sts., and (wholesale) 

Broadway c. Chambers st. 
Sutzberger, S. & Co., 291 Eighth av. 
Wallen & McSorley, 245 Grand st. 

Grocers, Retail and TTliolesale. 

Acker, Merrall & Condit, Chambers st. 

Agnew, Thomas R., 39 Vesey st. 

Albro, Albert T., 328 Bowery. 

Duncan's Sons, John, 1 Union place. 

Jackson & Fletcher, 339 Sixth av. 

Kerr, Henry A., 746 Broadway. 

Moise, Benj. V., 10 University place. 

Moore, Jenkins & Co. (Wholesale), Frank- 
lin St. c. West Broadway. 

Park & TUford, 921 B'way and 112 6th av. 

Thurber, H. K. & F. B. & Co. (whole- 
sale). West Broadway c. Reade st. 

Voy, William H., 10 Fourth av. 

Dyers, 

Barrett, Nephews & Co., 5 and 7 John st. 

and 1142 Broadway. 
Empire Dyeing and Cleaning Co., 936 

Broadway. 
Moneypenny, Robert, 420 and 450 Canal st. 
New York (Staten Island), 98 Duane st. 

Dye StufTs, Dealers in. 

Durkee, E. R. & Co., 135 Water st. 
Gifford, Sherman & Innis, 120 William st. 
Kohnstamm, Hesstein, 226 Chambers st. 
Morgan, James L. & Co., 47 Fulton st. 



New York Chemical Co., 161 Front st. 
Ross, W. A. & Brother, 56 Pine st. 

Editors. 

Bennett, James Gordon (N. Y. Herald), 220 

Broadway. 
Brooks, Erastus (N. Y. Express), 23 Park 

row. 
Brj^ant, Wm. C. (Evening Post), 208 B'way. 
Bundy J. M. (Evening Mail), 34 Park row. 
Cobb, John Steven (New Era), 67 William 

St. 

Croly, David G. (Graphic), 41 Park pi. 

Dana Charles A. (Sun), 170 Nassau st. 

Hastings, Hugh (Commercial Advertiser), 
126 Fulton St. 

Jennings, Lewis J. (Times), 41 Park row. 

Marble^ Manton (World), 35 Park row. 

Ottendorf er, Oswald (Staats Zeitung), Try- 
on row. 

Prime, Rev. S. Irenius (Observer), 37 Park 
row. 

Reid, Whitelaw (Tribune), 154 Nassau st. 

Ripley, George (Tribune), 154 Nassau st. 

Schuyler, Montgomeiy (World), 35 Park 
row. 

Sotheran, Charles (American Bibliopolist), 
84 Nassau st. • 

Stone, David M. (Journal of Commerce), 
76 Beaver st. 

Wood, Benjamin (Daily News), 19 Chat- 
ham St. 

Engravers. 

Barnard, Wm. S., 101 Varick st. 

Demarest, A., 182 Broadway. 

Everdell, Wm. Sons (See Adv.), 104 Fulton 

St. 

Gimbrede L. A. (Cards and Seals), 872 
Broadway. 

McRae, John, 108 Liberty st. 

Orr, John W. (Wood Engraver), 113 Lib- 
erty St. 

Pierson, P. R. B. (Wood Engraver), 7Beek- 
man st., up-stairs. 

Richardson, J. H. (Wood Engraver), 58 
Ann street, up-stairs. 

Skelton, D. J., 2 Centre, cor. Chambers st. 

Smith, John Calvin (Map Engraver), 42 
John St. 

Tompson, Wm. M., 169 William st. 

Engravings and Prints. 

Buttre, John C, 48 Franklin st. 
Currier & Ives, 123 Nassau st. 
Foerster, Edmund & Co., 645 Broadway. 
Hooper Charles T., 76 Nassau st. 
Kelley Thomas, 17 Barclay st. 



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Knoedler, M. & Co., 170 Fifth av. cor. 

22d St. 
"Wunderlich, Hermann, 3 John st. 

Envelope Makers. 

Berlin & Jones, 134 William st. 
Brown, E. E. & Co., 29 Beekman st. 
Chamberlin, C. C. & A. L., 56 Reade st. 
Chamberlin, Whitmore & Co., 45 Beekman 

St. 

Nesbitt, George F. & Co., 165 to 169 Pearl 

St. 

Porter & Bainbridge, 33 Beekman st. 
Raynor, Samuel & Co. , 115 William st. 
Tarbox & Co., 36 Beekman st. 
Woolworth & Graham, 51 John st. 

Fancy Ooods, Dealers in. 

Hinriehs, C. F. A., 29 and 31 Park pi. 
Nicol, F. B. & Co., 686 Broadway. 
Pell, Stephen, 21 John st. 
Schuyler, Hartley & Graham, 19 Maiden la. 
Tomes, Francis & Co., 6 Maiden la. 

Fire Arms, Dealers in. 

Fowler, Wm. M. & Co., 300 Broadway. 
Moore's, John & Sons, 300>^ Broadway. 
Remington, E. & Sons, 281 Broadway. 

[Fire Detector. 

American Fire Detector Company, C. D. 
Fredericks, Pres., 137 Eighth st. 

Fisl&ing Tackle, 

Abbey & Imbria, 48 Maiden la., 35 Liberty 

St. 

Barbour Brothers, 134 Church st. 

Barton, Alexander & Waller, 101 Duane st. 

Clark, D. W. & J. D., 163 Chambers st. 

Hawks & Ogilvy, 300 Broadway. 

Mills, Thomas, 7 Warren st. 

Onion & Cornwall, 18 Warren st. 

Peck & Snyder, 126 Nassau st. 

Plath, Charles, 552 Grand st. 

Queripel, Henry, Jr., 175 Tenth av. 

Snyder, Ward B., 84 Fulton st. 

Travels, J. P. & Son, 46 Beekman st. 

Flags and Banners. 

Annin & Co. (Established 1847), Fulton cor. 

William st. 
Burtine, Edwin R., 149 Fulton st. 
Grambach, J. E. & Co.; 215 Fulton st. 
McFaddon S. & Co., 198 Hudson st. 
Salisbm-y & Co., 159 Duane st. 



Florists. 

Gabrielson, Gunerius, 821 Broadway. 
Welterle & Belows, 958 Broadway, comef 
Twenty-third st. 

Fruit Dealers. 

Murphy, Joseph, 194 Broadway. 
Smith, W. & C, 189 Broadway. 
Smith & Finch, 86 Beaver st. 

Fur Dealers. 

Backus, M. M. & Co., 768 Broadway. 
Gunther, C. Godfrey & Co., 19 Union sq. 
Gunther, C. G. & Sons, 502 and 504 B'way, 
Mahler, Moritz, 849 Broadway. 

Furnaces aud Heaters. 

Burtis & Graff, 237 Water st. 
FuUer, Warren & Co., 236 Water st. 

Furnisliing Goods, men's. 

SUleck, D. C. & Cox, 180 Broadway. 
Ward, E. M. & W., 862 Broadway. 
Witthaus, G. H. & E. J. & Co. (whole- 
sale), 496 Broadway. 

Furniture Dealers. 

Irving & Son, 204 to 208 East 27th st. 
Krutina, Frederick, 96 & 98 E. Houston st. 
Lee, William H., 199 Fulton st. and 277 

Canal st. 
Sellew, T. G., 103 Fulton st. 
Wakefield, Rattan & Co., 814 Broadway. 
Ward, Warren & Co., 75 and 77 Spring st. 

Games and Toys. 

Horsman, E. I., 100 William st. and 72 John 

St. 

Johnson, George R., 43 Barclay st. 
Mapes, Stephen S., 37 Maiden la. 
Selchow, E. G. & Co., 41 John st. 

Gas Burner Makers. 

Gleason, E. P., Manuf'g Co., 20 W. Hous- 
ton st. 

Hunter, Charles A., 744 Broadway. 

Wallace & Sons, 89 Chambers st. and 71 
Reade st. 

Gas Fixtures, &c. 

Cox, Henry T. & Co., 694 and 696 B'way. 
James Brothers, Automatic Gas, 615 B'way. 
Mitchel, Vance & Co., 597 Broadway. 

Gas Meter Makers. 

Amer. Meter Co., 512 W. 22d st. 



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NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



Harris, Griffin & Co., 49 Dey st. 

New York Gas Saving Meter Co., 5 Dey st. 

Gas Stoves. 

Bogart, A. L. & E. E., 702 Broadway. 

Sharp. James L. & Co., 198 Sixth av. 
TifEt & Howard, 12 Murray st. 

Gas Works, Portable. 

Gilbert & Barker Manufacturing Co., 238 

Canal st. 
defiant Gas and Gas "Works Manufacturing 

Co., 13 Dey st. 
Under-ground Gas Machine Co., 39 Dey st. 

Glass, Dealers in. 

Bache, Semon & Co., 134 & 136 Duane st. 
Morris, Delano & Co. , 27 Chambers st. 
Roosevelt & Son, 94 Maiden Lane. 

Glass, liooking. Dealers in. 

Hooper, Thomas, 114 Nassau st. 
Noll, Saurel & Marnefle, 26 Howard st. 
Roosevelt & Son, 94 Maiden lane. 
Whittemore Brothers, 579 Broadway. 
Willard, John S., 251 Canal st. 
Wilmurt, Thomas A., 54 E. 13th st. 

Glass Manufacturers. 

Hagerty Bros. & Co., 10 Piatt st. 
Quinlan, Jeremiah, 138 William st. 
Walker, Wm. A,, 616 Broadway. 

Glove Cleaners. 

Basch, Heniy, 158 Broome st. 
O'Gorman, John, 599 Broadway. 

Gloves, Importers of. 

Harris Brothers, 877 Broadway. 
Ridley, Edward «& Son, 309 Grand st. 
Salisbury & Co., 159 Duane st. 
Thompson, Langdon & Co., 478 Broadway. 
Vienna & Paris Glove Co., 929 Broadway. 

Glue, Dealers in. 

Baeder, Adamson & Co., 67 Beekman st. 
Cooper, Peter & Co., 17 Burling slip. 
Hewitt, C. B. & Bro., 48 Beekman st. 
Marcus Brothers & Co., 274 Pearl st. 
MUligan & Higgins Glue Co., 200 Fulton st. 
Townsend, Charles, 116 John st. 

Gold Pen & Pencil Makers. 

Aiken, Lambert & Co., 12 Maiden lane. 
Fairchild, Leroy W. & Co., 110 William st. 
■Foley John, 2 Astor House. 
Ludden's Gold Pen & Pencil Case Co., 179 
Broadway. 



Grate Bars. 

New York Fuel and Grate Bar Co., 52 Wil- 
liam St. 
Salamander Grate Bar Co., 85 Liberty st. 

Grates and Fenders. 

Jackson, William H. & Co., 81 E. 17th st. 
Mott, J. L., 90 Beekman st. 
Stewart, T. B. & Co., 220 W. 23d st. 
Vannote & Pries, 394 Canal st. 

Gun and Pistol Makers. 

Barton, Alexander & Waller, 101 Duane st. 
Merwin, Hulbert & Co., 83 Chambers st. 
Remington, E. & Sons, 281 Broadway. 
Schuyler, Hartley & Graham, 19 Maiden la. 
United States Arms Co., 101 Duane st. 

Guns, Dealers in. 

Remington, E. & Sons, 281 and 283 B'way, 
Manufacturers of Breech-Loading Fire 
Arms, Ammunition, etc. 

Tomes, Francis & Co., 6 Maiden la. 

Hair Cloth. 

Johnson & Faulkner, 62 Greene st. 
Newman, Henry, 391 Broadway. 
Wagner, Schneider & Co., 185 Canal st. 

Hand Stamps. 

Cooke, G. K. & Co., 92 Chambers st. 
Davis Manufacturing Co., 79 Nassau st. 
Fenner & Co., 98 Liberty st. 
Stewart, George H. & Co., 29 William st. 

Hatters. 

Adams Brothers & Brush, 83 Green st. 
Amidon, T. H. & Son, 220 Fifth av. 
Bird, M. (Established 1837), 49 Nassau si. 
Burk (The Hatter), 214 Broadway, and 128 

Fulton St. 
Dunlap & Co., 174 Fifth av. & 589 B'way. 
Hunt & Dusenbury (Established 1845), 3 

Astor House. 
Knox, Charles, 212 Broadway. 
Mealio, Wm. C. & Co. (Established 1835), 

416 Broadway. 
Terry, John R. (Hats and Furs), 865 B'way. 
Youmans, Daniel D., 819 and 1103 B'way. 

Harness Makers. 

Campbell, Richard, 50 Fourth av. 

Healtk Food. 
Health Food Company, 137 Eighth st. 
Healtli Lift. 

Health Lift Co., 46 East 14th st. 



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Heating Apparatus. 

Angell & Blake Manufacturing Co., 730 

Broadway. 
Bramhall, Deane & Co., 734 Broadway. 
Morse, James O., 76 John st. 
Simonds Manufacturing Co., 50 Cliff st. 
Warner, Wyllys H., 114 Leonard st. 

Horn Dealers. 
Buck, Louis, 313 Broadway. 
Cooper, John W., 359 Front st. 
Sullivan, Eugene, 11 Jacob st. 
Thompson, Gilbert, 348 Front st. 

Hotels. 
Albemarle, H. & T. Hagaman, 1101 

Broadway cor. 34th st. 
Anthony House, Reynolds & Merritt, 834 

Broadway. 
Arlington House, Lewis Stine, 33 E. 14th 

st. near Broadway. 
AsuLANu House, H. H. Brockway, 315 

Fourth av. 
AsTOR House,* Allen & Dam, Broadway 

bet. Barclay and Vesey sts. 
Belvedere House, Joseph Wehrle, 17 Ir- 
ving pi. cor. 15th St. 
Brandreth House,* Kerr & Slader, Canal 

St. cor. Broadway. 
Brevoort House, Clark & Waite, 11 Fifth 

av. 
Buckingham Hotel,* Gale, Fuller & Co., 

Fifth av. and 50th st. 
Central Park,* Herman Knubel, Seventh 

av. and 59th st. 
Clarendon, Charles H. Kemer, Fourth av. 

cor. 18th St. 
Coleman House,* Jewell & Austin, 1167 

Broadwav cor. 37th st. 
Cosmopolitan,* N. & S. J. Huggins, 139 

Chambers st. 
Delmonico's,*L. Delmonico, Fifth av. and 

14th St. 
Earle's Hotel, Earl Brothers, 341 Canal cor. 

Centre st. 
Everett House, Kemer & Weaver, Fourth 

av. and 17th st. 
Fifth Avenue Hotel, Darling, Griswold & 

Co., Fifth av. and 33d st. 
French's Hotel,* T. J. French & Bros., 

cor. Frankfort st. and City Hall pi. 
Gilsey House,* Breslin, Gardner & Co., 

1303 Broadway. ..^ -r..^-.. 

Glenham House,t N. B. Barry, 155 Fifth 

av. 
Grand Hotel,* Henry M. Smith, Broad- 
way cor. 31st st. 



Grand Central, H. L. Powers, Broadway 
opp. Bond St. 

Grand Union,* Breslin, Purcell & Co., 
Fourth av. cor. 43d st. 

Hoffman House, C. H. Read, 1111 Broad- 
way, cor. 35th st. 

Hotel Brunswick,* Mitchell & Kinzler, 
Fifth av. and 36th st. 

Hotel Royal, Pieris & Co., cor, 40th st. and 
Sixth av. 

International Hotel,* Joshua Vanbrimmer, 
17 and 19 Park row. 

Irving House, George P. Harlow, Broad- 
way cor, 13th St. 

Leggett's,* Leggett & Storms, 43 and 44 
Chatham st. 

Mansion House, 151 Hicks st., Wklyn. 

Marlborough House, Wm. L. Fish, Sixth 
ave. cor. 38th st. 

Merchants' Hotel, Wm. G. Schenck, 39 
Cortlandt st. 

Metropolitan Hotel, Breslin, Purcell & Co. 
584 Broadway. 

Monument House, Nicholas Haughton, 6 
Union sq. 

National Hotel, A. T. Halliday, 5 Cort- 
landt St. 

New England, Peter V. Husted, 30 Bowery. 

New York Hotel, F. Wrisley & Co., 731 
Broadway. 

Occidental Hotel, J. F. Darrow, 343 Broome 
St. cor. Bowery. 

Oriental, F. M. Underbill, 43 Layfayette pi. 

Pacific Hotel, John Patten, 173 Greenwich 

St. 

Park Hotel,* George A. Crossett, 140 Nas- 
sau St. 
Pierrepont House, Montague cor. Hicks st., 

Prescott House, David Hexter, 531 B'way. 
Reverb House*, T. J. Coe & Son, 606 

Broadway. 
RossMORE HousE,t Charlcs E. Leland, 

Broadway cor. Seventh av. 
St. Charles*, G. Dorval, 648 Broadway. 
St. Cloud, Rand Brothers, 1456 Broadway. 
St, Dennis,* Wm. Taylor and E. A. GUson, 

799 Broadway. 
St. Germain,t Wm. G, Tompkins, 1 E, 33d 

St., cor. Broadway 
St. Nicholas, S. Hawk & Co., 515 B'way. 
St. James,* George B. Lester, B'way, cor. 

Twenty-sixth St. „ ,. . 

Sinclair House,* Ashman & Morton, 754 

Broadway. ^ „ „tt • 

Spingler House,* J. F. Frost, 5 & 7 Union sq. 



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NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



Stacy House, Stacy & Nelson, 760 B'way. 
Stevens House,* Allen & Bodwell, 25 B'way 
Sturtevant House, Lewis and Geo. S. Le- 

land, 1186 Broadway. 
Sweeny's Hotel, t Daniel Sweeny, comer 

Chambers and Chatham sts. 
Tremont House,* Caddagan & Hasbrouck, 

665 Broadway. 
Union Place Hotel,* Thomas Ryan, 54 E. 

Fourteenth st. 
Union Square Hotel, Dam & Sanborn, 16 

Union sq. 
United States Hotel, Traman & Peabody, 

196 Water cor. Fulton st. 
Washington,* Chas. W. Dingley, 1 B'way. 
Westminster, Chas. B. Ferrin,125E. 16th st. 
Westmoreland, E. J. Kilbourne, Union sq. 
Windsor Hotel, Hawk, Waite & Wether- 
bee, 565 Fifth av. 

House Furnisliing Ooods. 

Baldwin, J. H., 26 Murray st. 

Bassford, E. D., Cooper Institute, 8th st. 

Hubbell, John E., 922 Broadway. 

Parke, John, Hardware, &c., 345 Sixth av. 

House Furiiisliing Hai*di;i'are. 

Howard, Wm. O., 553 Third av. 
Lewis & Conger, 601 Sixth av. and 1306 
Broadway. 

Ice Cream. 

Fussell, J. & Sons, 12 Bible House. 
Horton, J. M., 1264 B'way & 305 Fourth av. 
JeweU, Alfred, 262 Grand and 118 Bowery. 

Ice Companies. 

Knickerbocker, 432 Canal st. 
Washington, 434 Canal st. 

Importers. 

Bowie, Dash & Co., Coffee, 166 Pearl st. 

Cort, N. L. & Co., Tin Plate, etc., 220 Wa- 
ter St. and 115 Beekman st. 

Durkee, E. R. & Co., 135 to 139 Water st. 

Le Bontilhen &, Bride, Fancy Goods, 10 
Maiden lane. 

Mangin, V. E. J., Guedin & Co., Watches, 
etc., 652 Broadway. 

Schuyler, Hartley & Graham, Bronzes, etc., 
19 Maiden lane. 

Spies, Kissam & Co., Guns, etc., 229 B'way. 

Story, Rufus & Co., Spices, 7 & 9 Front st. 

India Rubber Ooods. 

Goodyear India Rubber M'f'g Co., 205 

Broadway and 162 and 164 Fulton st. 
Goodyear Rubber Co., 365 and 367 B'way. 



New York Belting and Packing Co., 37 and 

39 Park row. 
New York Rubber Co., 5 and 7 Dey st. 

Iron Beams, &c. 

Cornell, J. B. & J. M., 141 and 143 Centre, 

and 526 W. 26th st. 
New Jersey Steel and Iron Co. , 17 Burling 

slip. 
Pierson & Co., 24 B'way and 77 New st. 

Iron Founders. 

u^tna Iron Works, 103 Goerck st. 
Architectural Iron Works, 624 E. 14th st. 
Calkin, Freeman Brant, 515 W. 25th st. 
Cook & Radley, 218 E. 37th st. 
Cornell, J. B. & J. M., 141 and 143 Cen- 
tre St. Plain and Oraamental (See Adv.) 
Dimond James G., 209 W. 33d st. 
Jackson, James L., 315 E. 28th st. 
Nichol & Billerwell, 224 W. Houston st. 
Worrall & Co., 28 Elm st. 

Iron Manufacturers. 

Coddington, T. B. & Co., 27 Cliff st. 
Congreve, Charles & Son, 104 John st. 
Cooper, Hewitt & Co., 17 Burling slip. 
Crocker Brothers, 32 Cliff st. 
Dunham, Carrigan & Co., 22 Vesey st 
Egleston Brothers & Co., 166 South st. 
Oothout, William, 3 Cliff st. 
Richards, Daniel W. & Co., 92 Mangin st. 
Trimble, Merritt, 21 Piatt st. 
Wetmore & Co., 365 Greenwich st. 
Whitney, Alfred R. & Bro., 58 Hudson st 
Williamson, James & Co., 69 WaU st. 

Jew^elers. 

Allen, George C. (Diamonds, &c.), 1190 

B'way. 
Benedict, A. C, 28 Bowery. 
Benedict Brothers, 171 Broadway. 
Black, Starr & Frost, Fifth av. cor. 28th st. 
Fellows & Co. (Watches and Diamonds), 17 

Maiden lane. 
Fellows, Forster & Co. (Watches, &c.), 11 

Maiden lane. 
Ladd, Wm. F. (Established in 1828), 19 

Wall St. 
Moir, William (Diamonds, etc.), 373 Sixth 

av. 
Squire, H. N., 97 Fultonst. 
Starr & Marcus, 22 John st. 
Tiffany & Co. (Diamonds, etc.), 15 Union 

sq. 
Thomas, S., 311 Fulton st., Brooklyn. 

Label Manufacturers. 

Crump & Everdell, 75 Fulton st. 



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Everdell's, William Sons, 104 Fulton st. 
Price Brothers, 112 Fulton st. 
Salisbury & Co., 159 Duane st. 
Wemple, Charles E. & Co., 23 Day st. 

liace Dealers. 

Aziel, Erdmann & Co., 168 Church st. 
Macdonald, Robert, 468 Broadway. 
Salisbury & Co., 159 Duane st. 
Yard, Edmund, Jr., & Co., 61 Leonard st. 

Ladies' Slioemakers. 

Arnold, William & Co., 781 Broadway. 
Bennett, J. C. & Bernard, 51 Warren st. 

licad, Dealers in. 

Crooke, Edward & Co., ft. W. 15th st. 
Leroy, Thomas, Otis & Co., 261 Water st. 

Lead Pipe. 

Colwell Lead Co., 213 Centre st. 
Leroy, Thomas, Otis & Co., 261 Water st. 
New York Lead Co., 65 Centre st. 
Plumbers' Lead Co., 60 Duane st. 
Tatham & Brothers, 82 Beekman st. 

Xeatlier Dealers. 

Adler, Sigmund, 37 Frankfort st. 
Andrews', Loring Sons, 61 Cliff st. 
Arthur, Henry, 84 Gold st. 
Beswick, Thomas, 275 Front st. 
Bucking Leather Co., 39 Spruce st. 
Burbauk & Baldwin, 27 Spruce st. 
Carroll, James, rear 66 Frankfort st. 
Chatfield, Underwood & Co., 29 Ferry st 
Evans, George & Son, 1 Jacob st. 
Foul, J. G. , 51 Wai-ren st. 
Gamer, Thomas, 180 William st. 
Herrick, Silas W., 12 Jacob st. 
Hogg, William, 52 Ferry st. 
Hopkins, Frank C, 46 Ferry st. 
Howell, T. P. & Co., 77 Beekman st. 
Hoyt, J. B. & Co., 28 Spruce st. 
Jones, Benjamin W., 38 Spruce st. 
Lutkins, Theodore L., 40 Spruce st. 
Nagel & Werner, 62 Duane st. 
Schultz, Jackson S., 65 Cliff st. 

Libraries, Circulating. 

New York Eclectic, 33 Union sq. 
Life Preservers, 

Kahnweiler, David, 120 Centre st. 

Lime, 

Ferguson & Co., 610 W. 39th st. 
Mclntyre, Edmund H. , 87 Dey st. 
Malone, Patrick M., 393 W. 12th st. 
Miller, William A., 121 West st. 
Osbom, Henry S., 115 West st. 



Linen Goods, Dealers in. 

Ballin, G. & J., 213 Church st. 
Douglass, David & Co., 91 Franklin st. 
Jaffe, O. & Piukus, 89 Leonard st. 
Longmire, Elmore & Mackenzie, 400 B' way. 
McGibbon & Co., 172 Fifth av. 
Baton & Co., 113 Duane st. 
Scott Brothers, 198 Church st. 
Watt, Wm. & Co., 60 Leonard st. 
White, James F. & Co., 54 Worth st. 
WindmuUer, Louis & Roelker, 20 Reade st. 

LitIi.ograpb.er8. 

American Photo-Lithographic Co., 103 

Fulton St. 
Endicott & Co., 57 Beekman st. 
Hatch Lithographic Co., 32 and 34 Vesey st. 
Laing, Joseph, 107 Fulton st. 
Major & Knapp, 56 and 58 Park pi. 
Maverick, Steven & Co., 176 Fulton st. 
Mayer, Ferdinand, 96 Fulton st. 
Nesbitt, George F. & Co., 163 to 169 Pearl 

St. 

New York Lithographing and Engraving 
Co., Julius Bien, supt., 16 and 18 Park 
pi. 

Pelletreau & Raynor, 35 Vesey st. 

Snyder & Black, 92 WUliam st. 

Wood, Thomas, 81 Nassau st. 

Livery Stables. 

Brown, Ira, 54 University pi. 

lurguson, George N. & Frank, 120 W. 52d 

St. 

New York Transfer Co., 945 Broadway. 
Queen, Montgomery, 57 Irving pi. 
Ryerson, Brown & Davis, 32 and 73 Uni- 
versity pi. 

ITIantel Ornaments. 

Starr & Marcus, 22 John st. 

Map Dealers. 

Asher & Adams, 59 Beekman st. 
Beers, J. B. & Co., 36 Vesey st. 
Bidwell & Co , 25 Bond st. 
Bridgeman, Edward C, 5 Barclay st. 
Colton, G. W. & C. B. & Co., 17 WUliamst. 
Johnson, A. J., Great Jones st. 
Lloyd, H. H. & Co., 21 John st. 
Steiger, E., 22 Frankfort St. 
Waker, Jewett & Miller, 141 Fulton st. 
Watson, Gayloi'd, 16 Beekman st. 

Marble Dealers. 

Casoni & Isola, Monuments, etc., 146 to 

152 W. Fortieth st. 
Klaber, Adolph, 136 E. Eighteenth st. 
Sichols, W. D. & A. S., 73 Hudson st. 



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NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



masonic Goods. 

Howell, D. B. & Co., Masonic Temple, 23d 

St. and Sixth av. 
Mathematical Instrument Makers. 

Eggerts, D., Sons, 74 Wall st. 
Hunter, Hugh W., 1132 Broadway. 
Pikes, Benj., Son, 518 Broadway. 

Mattresses, Dealers in. 

Brantigan, F. A., 661 Broadway. 
Merchant Tailors. 

Baldwin & Co., Broadway and Canal st. 
Brooks Brothers, Broadway and Bond st. 
Derby, F. & Co., (Established 1829), 3 Clin- 
ton pi., 8th St. 
Devlin & Co., Broadway & Grand st. and 

Freeman & Woodruff, 241 Broadway. 
Jessup & Co., Broadway. 
Raymond & Co., 127 Fulton st. 
Sackett & Miller, 6 Fourth av. 
Thompson, J. B., 64 Nassau st. 
Torrey & Jenkins, 55 W. 23d st. 

Metals, Dealers in. 
Coddington, F. B. & Co., 27 Cliff st. 
Crocker Brothers, 32 Cliff st. 
Phelps, Dodge & Co., 19 and 21 Cliff st. 
Pope, Thomas J. & Brother, 292 Pearl st. 
Quincy, John W., 98 William st. 

Military Goods. 

Hortsmann Brothers & Allen, 7 Bond st. 
Remington, E. & Sons, 281 Broadway. 
Schuyler, Hartley & Graham, 19 Maiden la. 
Shannon, Miller & Crane, 46 Maiden la. 
Tomes, Francis & Co., 6 Maiden la. 
Milliners and Dress Makers. 

Clark & McLoughlin, 889 Broadway. 
Higgins, M.T., Millinery and Fancy Goods, 

52 W. 14th St. 
Magnus, J., 343 Sixth av. 
Olney, C. M., 30 E. 14th st. 
O'Neill, H. & Co., 327 and 329 Sixth av. 
Trumbull, Madame, 367 Bowery. 

Millinery Goods. 

Shannon, Miller & Crane, 46 Maiden la. 
Tomes, Francis & Co., Guns, etc., 6 Maiden 
lane. 

Mineral Waters. 

Bolen & Byrne, 231 E. Twenty-eighth st. 
Gelston, John, 4 Broad st. and 340 Fifth av. 
Schenck & Co., 55 Beekman st. 
Schultz, Carl H., 860 Broadway and 432 
First av. 



Smith, Hanbury & Hazard, 35 Union sq. 

and 309 Broadway. 
Walker, Thomas, 112 E. Fourteenth st. 

Mourning Goods. 

Jackson, W., 777 Broadway. 
Music Dealers. 

American Conservatory of Music, 144 

Fifth av. 
Hall, Thomas J., 814 Broadway. 
Hopkins, Edward, 861 Broadway. 
Pond, Wm. A. & Co., 547 Broadway and 

39 Union sq. 
Waters & Sons, 481 Broadway. 

Nail Makers. 

Fuller, Lord & Co., 139 Greenwich st. 
Morris, Wheeler & Co., 14 Cliff st. 
Oxford Iron Co., 81 to 85 Washington st. 
Parker Mills, 73 Pearl st. 
Waterman, L. C. & Co., 181 Canal st. 

Naval Stores, Dealers in. 

Creed, George H., 49 Warren st. 
Cuthbert, John H. & Co., 38 Burling slip. 
King, John, 141 Maiden la. 
Turton, John, 133 Maiden la. 

News Companies. 

American, 119 and ^21 Nassau st. 
National, 122 Nassau st. 
New York, 18 Beekman st. 
Wilmer & Rogers, 31 Beekman st. 

Oil Dealers. 

Mayhew & Co., 140 Front st. 
Pratt, Charles & Co., 128 Pearl st. 

Opticians. 

Burbank, S. D. & Co . , 14 Maiden la. 

Kahn, Benoit, 703 Broadway. 

Pike, Benjamin, Son, 518 Broadway. 

Organs, Manufacturers of. 

Billings & W^heelock, "Burdett Organ," 

14 E. Fourteenth st. 
Needham, E. P. & Son, " Silver Tongue," 

143 and 145 E. Twenty-third st. 

Painters. 

Chapman, Warren & Son, 131 Liberty st. 

Paints, Dealers in. 

Devoe, F. W. & Co., 115 and 117 Fulton st. 
Empire Iron-Clad Paint Co., 30 West B'way. 
National Mixed Paint, 68 Barclay st. 
Raynolds, C. T. & Co. (See Adv.), 106 and 
108 Fulton St. 



BUSINESS DIEECTOEY. 



291 



Paper Dealers. 

Anderson, J. F., Jr., &Co.,34 Beekmanst. 
Ay res, J. B. & Co., 33 Beekman st. 
Bulkley, Dunton & Co., 74 John st. 
Campbell, Hall & Co., 110 and 112 Nas- 
sau St. 
Hand & Elsworth, 51 Beekman st. 
Hard, Melvin. & Son, 25 Beekman st. 
Liudenmeyr <k Bro., 15 & 17 Beekman st. 
Parsons, W. H. & Bro., 74 Duane st. 
Seymour Paper Co., 45 John st. 
Van Winkle, Frank O., 186 William st. 
Vernon Bros. & Co. , 67 Duane st. 

Pbotograpliers. 

Alman, Louis, & Co., 172 Fifth av. 
Bogardus, Abraham, 872 Broadway. 
Estabrooke, 31 Union sq. 
Fredericks, C. D. & Co., 587 Broadway. 
Kurtz, William, Madison sq., 4 E. 23d st. 
Mora, Joseph M. , 707 Broadway. 
Sarony, N., 680 Broadway. 

Pliotograpliic Materials. 
Anthony, E. & H. T. & Co, 591 Broadway. 

Piano Forte Makers. 

Ball, S. V. & Co., 15 E. Fourteenth st. 
Chickering & Sons, 11 E. Fourteenth st. 
Cabler, Ernest, 220 E. Twenty-second st. 
Chambers' Piano Factory, 306 Fourth av. 
Decker Brothers, 33 Union sq. 
Haines Bros., Second av. cor. 21st st. 
Knabe, Wm. & Co., 112 Fifth av. 
Kranich & Bach, 241 and 243 E. 26th st. 
Lighte & Ernst, 12 E. Fourteenth st. 
Raven & Co., 116 and 118 W. 14th st. 
Schuetze & Tudolfif, 452 Broome st. 
Smith, T. G., 14 E. Fourteenth st. 
Somers & Co., 149 to 155 E. Fourteenth st. 
Stein way & Sons, 107 to 111 E. 14th st. 
Stanford, D. R. & Co., 17 Union sq. 
Waters, Horace, & Sons, 481 Broadway. 
Weber, Fifth av. cor. Sixteenth st. 

Photo-Eiigraviiig. 

Photo-Engraving Co., 62 Cortlandt st. 
Pocket Books, Portfolios, &c, 

Culbert & Co., 24 Maiden la. 
Tostevin, Alfred, 48 Nassau st. 

Postage Stamps, Foreign. 

Scott, J. W. & Co., 75 Nassau st. 
Povrder Companies. 

DuPont Co., 70 WaU st. 
Hazard Powder Co., 88 Wall st. 
Laflin & Rand, 21 Park row. 



Printers' TWareliouses. 

American Printers', 41 Park row. 
Damon «& Peets, 44 Beekman st. 
Dauchy & Co., 191 Fulton st. 
Vanderburgh, Wells & Co., Dutch, cor. 



Fulton St. 



Printers. 



Armstrong, Edward V. & Co., 729 B'way. 

Baker & Godwin (Established 1850), 25 
Park row. 

Davis, Joseph, 645 Broadway. 

Everdell's, Wm., Sons (Established 1815), 
104 Fulton St. 

Gnswold, T. D. & Co., 192 Broadway. 

Hart, Francis & Co., 12 and 14 College pi. 

Metropolitan Printing Co., 218 Broadway. 

Murphy's Son, D., 65 Fulton st. 

Napier, Charles, 419 Broadway. 

National Printing Co., 25 Chambers st. 

Nesbitt, Geo. F. & Co., Pearl st. 

Oliver, Isaac J., 78 Duane st. 

Polhemus, John, 102 Nassau st. 

Prall, J. P., 9 Spruce St. 

Pratt, J. W., 75 Fulton st. 

Rogers & Sherwood, 94 Nassau st. 

Siebert, M. W., 26 Frankfort st. 

Sackett, E. Wells, & Bro., 56 and 58 Wil- 
liam st. 

Torry, James D.. 13 Spruce st. 

Trow, John F. & Son, 209 E. Twelfth st. 
and 11 University pi. 

Whitehome, A. N., Ann st., cor. Nassau. 

Wynkoop & Hallenbeck, 113 Fulton st. 

Printing Ink Manufacturers. 

Lightbody, John G., 24 Beekman st. 
Mather's, George, Sons, 60 John st. 

Printing Machines. 

Gordon, George T., 17 Beekman st.» 
Hob, R. & Co., Manufacturers, comer 
Grand and Sheriff sts. 

Publishers. 

American Swedenborg Printing and Pub. 

Society, 20 Cooper Union. 
Anderson, W. T., Masonic Pub. Co., 626 

Broadway, 
Atlantic Pub. and Eng. Co., 141 Fulton st. 
Authors', The, Pub. Co., 27 Bond st. 
Baker, Pratt & Co., 142 and 144 Grand st. 
Baptist Publication Co., 76 E. Ninth st. 
Beadle & Adams, 98 William st. 
Cassel, Petter & Galpin, 596 Broadway 
Currier & Ives, Prints, etc., 133 Nassau st. 
Disturnell, John, 137 Eighth st. 
Gibson, W. W. & Co., 712 Broadway. 



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NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



Goulding, Lawrence G., City Directory, 
132 and 134 Nassau st. 

Harper Brothers, Franklin sq., Pearl st. 

Holt, Henry & Co., 25 Bond st. 

Home Publishing Co., B'way, cor 14th st. 

Industrial Publishing Co., 176 Broadway. 

Leonard Scott Pub. Co., Blackwell's Mag- 
azine, &c., 41 Barclay st. 

Leopold, F., 37 Park row. 

London Printing and Pub. Co., 17 Park pi. 

Lovell Printing and Publishing Co., 713 
Broadway. 

Manhattan Book Co., 137 Eighth st. 

Mason, Albert, 13 Astor Place. 

Munn & Co., Scientific American, 37 Park 
row. 

Patterson, F. B., 32 Cedar st. 

Patrons and Sovereigns Pub. Co., 89 Liberty 

St. 

Pelton, E. R., 25 Bond st. 

Redding & Co., Masonic Works, 731 B'way. 

Strong, Thomas W., 599 Broadway. 

Taintor Bros. & Co., 758 Broadway. 

Townsend, Wm. A., 177 Broadway. 

Treat, E. B., 805 Broadway. 

United States Pub. Co. , 13 University pi. 

Wells, S. R. & Co., 737 Broadway. 

World Publishing House, 139 Eighth st. 

Razor Strops, Dealers in. 

Saunders, B. & G. F., 7 Astor House. 
Smith, Henry (Razor Strop Man), cor. Nas- 
sau and Pine sts. 

Ranges and Fnrnaces. 

Janes & Kirtland, 8, 10 & 12 Reade st. 
Richardson, Boynton & Co., 234 Water st. 

Refiners. 

Dederick & Co., 18 Maiden la. 
Gifford» William E., 19 Broad st. 
Longman's Sons, R., 31 John st. 
Piatt, George W., 2 Liberty pi. 
Spear & Howard, 1 John st. 

Restaurant and Eating House. 

Murphy & Powers, 77 Cedar st. 

Russia lieatlier Ooods. 
Culbert & Co., 24 Maiden la. 

Saddlers and Harness. 

Campbell, R., 50 Fourth av. 
Condit & Co. , 521 Broadway. 
Gibson, Wood (Estab. 1818), 793 B'way. 
Harmer, Hays <& Co., 72 Beekman st. 
Miller, Morrison & Co., 596 Broadway. 



Saleratus, Dealers in. 

Taylor, J. Monroe, 112 Liberty st. 
Sales. 

Diebold, Norris & Co., 267 Broadway. 
Herring & Co. (Estab. 1841), 251 B'way. 
Marvin Safe & Lock Co., 265 Broadway. 
Terwilliger & Co., Maiden la. 
Valentine & Butler Safe & Lock Co., 298 
Broadway. 

Scales, Manufacturers of. 

Fairbank & Co., 311 Broadway. 
Howes Scale Co., 3 Park pi. 

Seedsmen and Florists. 

Bridgeman, Alfred, 876 Broadway. 
Fleming, James, 67 Nassau st. 
Thorbum, Jas. M. & Co., 15 John st. 

Seal Presses, &c. 

Towar, James M., 254 Broadway. 

Sewing Machine Companies. 

Beckwith Sewing Machine Co., 862 B'way. 
Domestic Sewing Machine Co., Broadway, 

cor. 14th St. 
Grover & Baker, The, 786 Broadway. 
Howe's, Elias, 699 Broadway. 
Remington Works, 23d st. opp. Madison sq. 
Singer Mfg. Co., 34 Union sq. 
Wheeler & Wilson Mfg. Co., 44 14th st. 
Wilcox & Gibbs Sewing Machine Co., 658 

Broadway. 

Ship Brokers. 

Boyd & Hincken, 3 William st. 
Brown, George W., 41 South st. 
Perkins & Job, 27 South st. 
Tetans & Bockman, 9 South William st. 

Shipping and Com. Merchants* 

Spofford Brothers & Co., 29 Broadway. 

Silver-plated Ware. 

Meriden Britannia Co., 550 Broadway. 
Reed & Barton, 2 Maiden la. 

Silver "Ware. 

Bachman, Joseph & Sons, 3 Maiden la. 
Gorham Manufacturing Co., 1 Bond st. 

Sculptors. 

Bauer, Theodore, 697 Broadway. 
Macdonald, Wilson, 896 Broadway, 
Pisani, C, 299 Broadway. 
Rogers, John, 213 Fifth av. 



BUSINESS DIRECTORY. 



293 



Soap and Candle Dealers. 

Pyle, James, Man'f r, 350 Washington st. 
The Allan Hay Co., Man'f rs, 50 E. 23d st. 
near Fourth av. 

Soap and Perfumery, 

Brown, David S. & Co., 299 Broadway. 
Colgate & Co. (Established 1806), 53 and 55 

John St. 
Van Schoonhaven, C. , 338 Broadway. 

Solicitors. 

Munn & Co., Patent Solicitors, 37 Park 
row. (See Adv.) 

Spool Cotton. 

Smith, Wm. Henry, 32 Greene st. 

Sportsmen's Emporium. 

Eaton & Co., 120 Nassau st. 

Statuary, Dealers in. 

Rogers, John, 212 Fifth av. 
Stationers. 

Aiken, Lambert & Co. 

Anstice, Henry & Co., 23 Nassau st. 

Bainbridge, Heniy & Co. (wholesale), 101 

William st. 
Bigelow, L. H. & Co., 13 William st. 
Bonnell, J. Harper & Co., 42 Broad st. 
Bowne & Co., 65 Liberty st. 
Clayton, Charles H. & Co., 157 and 159 

Pearl st. 
Corlies, Macy & Co., 39 Nassau st. 
Derham, P. W., Manufacturing Stationer, 

15 Nassau st. 
Duyckinck, J. H., 164 Pearl st. 
Francis & Loutrel, 45 Maiden la. 
Gould, W. Reid, 168 Nassau st. 
Hart, Francis & Co., 12 and 14 College pi. 
Hosford & Sons, 56 Cedar st. 
Ketchum, Charles F., 27 Nassau st. 
Kiggins, Tooker & Co., 123 and 125 William 

St. 

Lawrence, B. & P. (wholesale), 49 Maiden 

la. 
Mundy, James G.. 114 William st. 
Nesbitt, Geo. F. & Co., 163 to 169 Pearl st. 
Raynor, Samuel (Envelopes), 117 WiUiam 

St. 

Root, R. C, Anthony & Co., 62 Liberty st. 
Sackett, E. Wells & Bro., 56 and 58 William 

St. 

Sears & Cole, 45 William st. 
Shipman, Asa L. & Sons, 10 Murray st. 
Slote & Janes, 93 Fulton st. 
Stationers' Exchange, 694 Broadway. 
Taylor, F. S., 16 Broad st. 
Turney, G. W., 77 Chatham st. 



Steam Pumps, IVIanufacturers of. 

Geo. F. Blake's Manufacturing Company, 

79 and 81 Liberty st, 
Knowles' Steam Pump Works, 92 and 94 

Liberty st. 

Stereotypers and Electrotypers. 

Denyse, William, 13 Frankfort st. 
Dill, Vincent, 25 New Chambers st. 
Lovejoy & Co., 15 Vandewater st. 
Manhattan Foundry, 113 Nassau st. 
Smith & McDougal, 82 Beekman st. 
Turney, J., 16 College place. 

Stereoscopes, Vie"wrs, &c. 

Anthony, E. & H. T. & Co., 591 B'way. 
Ropes, H. & Co., 323 Broadway. 
Surdam, B. G. & Co., 299^ Broadway. 

Steel, Manufacturers of. 

Chrome Steel Co., office cor. Kent av. and 
Keap St., Brooklyn, E. D. 

Steel Pens. 

Gillott, Joseph & Sons, 91 John st. 

Storage Warehouses. 

Griswold, W. N., 744 Broadway. 
Morrell's, 102 to 126 E. 32d st. 

Sugar Refiners. 

Booth & Edgar, 100 Wall st. & 132 King st. 
Burger, Hurlbut & Livingston, 91 Wall st. 
Decastro & Donner Sugar Refining Co., 

107 Front st. 
Dick & Meyer, 91% Wall st. 
Durant, C. W. & Son, 94 Wall st. 
Greer, Turner, Sugar Refining Co., 76 Wall 

St. 

Havemeyers & Elder, 98 Wall st. 

Havemeyers, Eastwick & Co., 78 Wall st. 

Havemeyer Bros. & Co., 89 Wall st. 

Kattenhom, Hopke, OfEerman & Co., 210 
Wall St. 

Matthiessen, F. O., & Wiechers Sugar Re- 
fining Co., 106 Wall St. 

Moller, Sierck & Co., 90 Wall st. 

New York Steam Sugar Refining Co., 91 
Wall St. 

North River Sugar Refining Co., Wall st, 

Ockershausen Bros., 87 Wall st. and 380 
South St. 

Pacific Sugar Refining Co, 

Wintjen & Harms, 87 Wall st. 

Surgical Instruments, Dealers in. 

Caswell, Hazard & Co., B'way cor. 24th st. 
Darrow & Co., 1227 Broadway. 



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NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



Otto, F. G. & Sons, 64 Chatham st. 
Schmidt, Philip H., 1275 Broadway. 
Ziemann, Geo. & Co. (Established in 1826), 
67 Chatham st. 

Tables, Manufacturers of. 

Lambie & Sargent, 793 Broadway. 
Tailors. 

Ackerman's, J. R., Son, 736 Broadway. 

Bell, A. C, 35 Union sq. 

Clark & Son, 791 Broadway. 

Elliot & Co., 785 Broadway. 

Harris, Benjamin L., 1178 Broadway, 

Porter, A. D. & Co., 733 Broadway. 

Tea Dealers— Wholesale. 

Battershall & Co., 161 Pearl st. 
Beards & Cottrell. 
BUlinge & Wetmore, 103 Water st. 
Buffum, Joshua & Co., 105 Water st. 
Carter, Hawley & Co., 106 Water st. 
Faile, Charles V., 132 Water st. 
Earrington, H. & G. B. <fc Co., 53 B'way. 
Gillett, Joseph & Co., 91 Front st. 
Gould, J. & Sons, 90 Front st. 
Gross, March & Co., 99 Wall st. 
Ives, Beecher & Co., Front st. 
Lane, Geo. W. & Co., 93 Front st. 
Low, A. A. & Bros., 31 Burling slip. 
Mead, Fred'k & Co., 104 Water st. 
O'Donohue's, John, Sons, Front st. 
Penfold, Chatfield & Co., 128 Front st. 
Reeve, Osborn & Co., 81 Front st. 
Roswell, Skeel & Co., 109 Water st. 
Rowland & Humphrey, Wall st. 
Runkle, J. C. & Co., 112 Wall st. 
Sheldon, Banks & Co., Front st. 
Story, R. G. & Co., 108 Water st. 
Wheeler, Ezra & Co., 93 Front st. 
White, John M. & Co. 89 Front st. 

Tea and Coffee Dealers. 

Albro Brothers, Bowery. 

Hamilton & Co., 52 Broadway. 

Parkin, H. H., 82 Water st. 

Stiner, Jos. & Co., 1 and 180 Chambers st. 

Wells, Robert, 43 Vesey st. 

Tiles, Dealers in. 

Anderson, Merchant & Co., 244 Pearl st. 
Miller & Coates, 279 Pearl st. 
To bacconists. 

Anderson, John & Co., 114 Liberty st. 
Leaman, W. & A., 6 Broadway. 
Lorillard, P. & Co., 16 & 18 Chambers, 

Toys, &c. 

Hinrichs, C. F. A., 29 and 31 Park pi. 



Schwarz, Fred'k A. O., 765 Broadway. 
Tibballs, Lewis P., 820 Broadway. 

Trunk Makers and Dealers. 

Cattnach, John, 736 Broadway. 

Gouch & Fitzgerald, 1 Maiden lane and 

556 Broadway. 
McKeever, Thomas, 1144 Broadway. 
Rorbach, John, 521 Broadway. 

Trusses, Dealers in. 

Marsh, S. M,, 2 Vesey st., Astor House. 
Pomeroy & Co., 744 Broadway. 
Stacy, Thomas C.,643 Broadway. 

Type and Stereotype Founders. 

Bruce, George, Son & Co., 13 Chambers st. 
Conner's Sons, James, 28 Centre st. 
Farmer, Little & Co., 63 and 65 Beekman st. 
Newton Copper Type Co., 14 Frankfort st. 

Umbrella Dealers. 

Drown, Wm. A. & Co., 498 and 500 Broad- 
way. 
Smith's, Isaac, Son & Co., 405 Broadway. 
Wright Brothers & Co., 324 Broadway. 

XJltramarine Manufacturers. 

Heller & Merz, 72 William st. 
Upliolsterers. 

Johnson, J, & C, 937 Broadway. 
Solomon, B. L. & Sons, 657 Broadway. 

Ventilators. 

Newman & Capron, 1172 Broadway. 
Wig Maker. 

Clirehugh, Wm. S. and E. McNamee, 564: 
Broadway. 

W^eatlier Strips. 

Browne's, 812 Broadway. 

Torrey, E. S. and J., 164 Fulton st. 

"White Lead, Dealers in* 

Jessup & ChUds, 225 Pearl st. 
Jewett, John & Sons. 

Wine Merchants. 

Duncan's, John, Sons, 1 Union sq. 
Luyties Brothers, 13 Murray st. 
Mouquin, H., 20 Ann st. 

TVire, Dealers in. 

Washburn & Moen, 42 Cliff st. 

Wood Carpeting. 
National Wood Manufacturing Co., 950 
Broadway. 

W^riting and Dressing Cases. 
Culbert & Co., 24 Maiden lane. 



CITY OF NEW YORK. 

Salaries of the Principal Officers and Clerks in the Employ of 
the City Government — 1876. 



1. Executive Depart- 

luent. 

Mayor $12,000 

Secretary 5,000 

Chief Clerk 2,400 

Clerk 1,500 

First Marshal 3,000 

Second Marshal 1,750 

Clerk 1,200 

Interpreter 1,800 

2. Licgislative Depart- 

ment. 

Preset B'd of Aldermen $5,000 

Aldermen (22) 4,000 

Clerk 5,000 

First Assistant Clerk . . 2,500 

Second 1,500 

Third 1,200 

Fourth 1,200 

Fifth 1,000 

Librarian 1,500 

Engrossing Clerk 1 ,200 

Sergeant-at-Arms 1,200 

^3. Finance Depart- 
ment. 

Comptroller $10,000 

Deputy Comptroller. . . 5,600 

Assistant 5,200 

4,000 

Clerk to Comptroller. . 3,200 

Secretary 1,700 

General Clerk 2,500 

2,400 

General Bookkeeper. . . 2,500 

Assistant 1,500 

Stock and Bond Clerk . 3,200 

Assistant 2,400 

Auditing Bureau. 
Auditor of Accounts. . . $3,600 

Assistant Auditor 1,700 

1,700 

1,700 

Kegister of Claims 1 ,700 

Clerk 1,500 

Paymaster 2,800 

Disbursing Officer 2,500 

Bureau of Arrears. 

Clerk of Arrears $3,500 

Assistant Clerk. 1,800 

" 1,800 

Apportionment Clerk. . 1,700 
Assistant Clerk 1,450 

Bureau for ColVtn of Taxes. 

Receiver of Taxes $4,500 

First Clerk 2,400 

Clerks (5) 1,360 



Bureaufor ColVtn ofAss'iyiHs. 
Collector of Assessm'ts $3,000 

Bookkeeper 1,275 

Clerk 1,000 

Bureau for Collecting City 

Revenue. 
Coll. City Eevenue. . . . $3,000 

Clerk 1,530 

Deputy Collector 1,450 

Bureau, of Markets. 

Supt. of Markets $3,000 

Clerk 1,275 

" 1,275 

Bureau of City Chamberlain. 

City Chamberlain $30,000 

For all Services, Clerks, &c. 

4. L.aw Department. 

Counsel to Corporation$15,000 

Assistant 10,000 

10,000 

7,500 

5,000 

5,000 

4,000 

" 3,500 

Chief Clerk 3,500 

Assistant 3,000 

2,500 

Stenographer 2,500 

Clerk.. 2,400 

" 1,800 

Office Public Administrator. 
Public Administrator. $5,000 

First Clerk 1,800 

Second Clerk 1,200 

Office Corporation Attorney. 
Corporation Attorney. $6,000 

First Clerk 3,000 

Second Clerk 1,800 

Process Servers (3) 1,500 

5. Police Department. 

Commissioner, PresH. $8,000 

6,000 

" 6,000 

" 6,000 

Superintendent 6.000 

Inspectors (4) 3,500 

Chief Clerk 5,000 

First Deputy Clerk .... 2,500 

Bookkeeper 2,500 

Superintendent's Clerk 3,000 

Property Clerk 2,000 

Stenographers (2) 1,500 

President's Secretary. . 1,800 



Deputy Clerks (5) 1,800 

" (8) 1,500 

Chief Surgeon 2,000 

Surgeons (18) 1,500 

Supt. of Telegraph. .... 2,500 

Telegraph Operators (4) 1 ,200 

Chief Bureau Elections 5,000 

Capts. of Precincts (32) 2,000 
Bureau of Street Cleaning. 

Deputy Inspector 2,500 

Chief Clerk 3,000 

Pay-roll Clerk 2,000 

6. Department of Pub- 
lic Works, 

Commissioner, Brest. . . $10,000 
Deputy Commissioner. 5,500 

ChiefClerk 4,000 

First Bookkeeper 3,000 

Second " 2,500 

General Clerks (3) 2,500 

Clerk 1,500 

Contract Clerk 3,500 

Bureau of Streets. 

Superintendent $3,000 

Clerks (2) 1,500 

Bureau of Sewers. 

Engineer-in-Charge $4,000 

Asst. Engineers (4) 2,500 

Secretary 2,500 

ChiefClerk 2,500 

Clerk 1,800 

Genl Sup'ts (4) 2,000 



Bureau of Water . 

Water Register $4,500 

Deputy Water Register 2,500 

ChiefClerk 2,500 

Clerks (2) 1,800 

Bureau of Chief Engineer. 

Chief Engineer $7,000 

Assistant 4,000 

(2) 3,500 

3,000 

(2) 2,500 

Clerk (2) 1,500 

Bureau of Water Purveyor. 

Water Purveyor $3,000 

Clerk 1,800 

" 1,500 

Inspector 1,800 

Bureau of <Jonstruction. 

Engineer-in-Chief $6,000 

Assistant Engineer (6) . . 2,500 
Pay-Roll Accountant . . . 3,000 
Clerk 2,500 



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NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



Bureau Supply and Repairs. 

Superintendent $2,750 

Clerk 1,400 

•7. Dep't of Cliarities. 

Secretary $3,000 

Supply Clerk 3,000 

Bookkeeper 3,000 

Supervising Engineer. . . 2,000 
Emigration and Con- 
tract Clerk 2,000 

Out-Door Department. 

Superintendent $4,000 

Clerk 1,500 

City Prison. 

Warden $2,750 

Deputy Warden 1,500 

Charity Hospital. 
Chief of Staff $2,000 

Penitentiary. 

Warden $1,650 

Almshouse. 

Warden $1,650 

Lunatic Asylum. 
Medical Superintend't $2,000 

City Asylum for Insane. 

Medical Superintend't $2,000 

S. Fire Department. 

Commissioner, Pres't. $7,500 

Commissioners (2) 5,000 

Acting Secretary 2,500 

Bookkeeper 2,500 

Bureau Chief of Department. 
Chief of Department.. $4,700 
Asst. Chief of Dept. ... 3, 000 
Chiefs of Battalions (10) 2,500 

Inspector 2,500 

Fire Marshal 2,500 

Supt. Telegraph Force. 2,500 

9. Healtli Oepartm't. 

Commissioner, Pres't. $6,500 

5,000 

Sanitary Sup' t 5,000 

Assistant 2.700 

Sanitary Inspectors (10) 1,600 

Secretary 5,000 

Auditing Clerk 2,200 

Attorney and Counsel . 4,500 

Chief Clerk 3,600 

10. Dept. Pub. Parks. 

Commissioner, Pres't. $6,500 

Commissioners (3) None. 

Secretary 4,500 

Asst. Secretary 3,000 

First Clerk 3,000 

Landscape Architect. . . 6,500 
Chief Clerk 3,000 



Sup't Architect 5,000 

Sup't Engineer 5,000 

Eng. Bur. Construction 5,000 

Civil and Top. Engin'r 5,000 

Assistant 4,000 

Division Engineers (3) . 3,000 

Disbursing Clerk 4,000 

11. Departm't Docks. 

Commissioner $6,500 

(2) 3,000 

Secretary 4,000 

Bookkeeper 3,000 

Chief Clerk 3,000 

Engineer-in-Chief 5,500 

First Asst. Engineer. . 4,000 

Sup't Construction .... 3,000 

Asst. Engineers (2) .... 2,500 

12. Dep't of Taxes and 

Assessments. 

Commissioner, Pres't. ..$6,500 

(2) 5,000 

Secretary 3,000 

Dep. Commi88ion'r8(2). 3,000 

(10) 2,400 

Clerks (2) 2,000 

Surveyor 3,000 

Assessors (4) 3,000 

Secretary 2,500 

13. Dep't of Buildi'gs. 

Superintendent $6,500 

Deputy 3,000 

Chief Clerk 3,000 

Chiefs of Bureaus (3) . . . 2,000 

14. Board Education. 

Commissioners (20) None 

Clerk $5,000 

Auditor 5,000 

Assistant Clerks (3) . . . . 2,500 

City Superintendent... 5,500 

Ass't " (2). 4,500 

" (5). 4,000 

Clerk 2,000 

Sup't School Buildings. 4,000 
Engineer 4,000 

15. Board of Excise. 

Commissioner (3) $5,000 

Chief Clerk 2,100 

Commis'rs Accounts. 

Commissioners (2) $3,000 

Clerk and Secretary 3,000 

Clerks (2) 1,500 

Registrar 2,500 

City Record. 

Supervisor $3,500 

SlierilT's Office. 

Sheriff Fees 

Register's Office. 

Register Fees 



Coroners. 

Coroners (4) Fees 

Commiss'r of Jurors. 

Commissioner $10,000 

County Clerk's Office. 

County Clerk $3,000 

Deputy Clerk 3,500 

Assistants (3) 3,000 

Clerks(2) 2,500 

Dist. Attorney's Office. 

District Attorney $12,000 

Assistants (4) 7,500 

Deputy 5,000 

Chief Clerk 3,500 

Supreme Court. 

Justices (5) $11,500 

Law Clerk 3,500 

Equity Clerk 3,500 

Clerks (6) 2,000 

Court Common Pleas. 

Chief Justice $15,000 

Judges (5) 15,000 

Clerk 6,000 

Deputy Clerk 5,000 

Assistant Clerks (12)... 2,500 

Superior Court. 

Chief Justice $15,000 

Judges (5) 15,00a 

Chief Clerk 6,000 

Deputy Clerk 5,000 

Assistant Clerks (12) . . . 2,500 
Marine Court. 

Chief Justice $10,000 

Justices (5) 10,000 

Clerk 4,000 

Deputy Clerk 3,500 

" 3,000 

Assistant Clerks (12). . . 2,500 

Surrogate's Office. 

Surrogate $12,000 

Chief Clerk 4,000 

Probate Clerk 2,500 

District Courts. 

Justices (10) $6,000 

Clerks (14) 3,000 

Clerks (6) 2,500 

Court Oen. Sessions. 

Recorder $15,000 

Clerk to Recorder 3,000 

Clerk 7,000 

" 5,000 

" 3,000 

Police Courts. 

Police Justices (11). . . . $8,000 

Clerks (6) 4,000 

Clerk 6,000 

Deputy Clerk 5,000 

Assistane Clerks (16). . . 2,00 



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NOTICE.— With the view to diminish the chances of Collision, the Steamers of this Line 
will henceforth take a specified course for all seasons of the year. 

On the Outward Passage from Que enstown to New York or Boston, crossing Meridian of 50 
at 43 Lat., or nothing to the North of 43. 

On the Homeward Passage, crossing the Meridian of 50 at 42 Lat., or nothing to the North of 42. 

THE BRITISH & NORTH AMEEICAN ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIPS 

BETWEEN 

Liverpool, Boston and Uew York, 



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Partliia, 

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Samaria, 

Saragossa, 



Scy-tlxia, 

Si"beria, 

Scotia, 

Sidon., 

Tarifa, 

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From NEW YORK, every Wednesday and Saturday. From BOSTON, Twice a Week. 



Vroirt Netv York or Boston to lAverpool. 

FIRST CLASS, - $80, $100 and $130, Gold. 
According to Accommodation. 

RETURN TICKETS, - On Favorable Terms. 

TICKETS TO PARIS, $15, Gold, additional. 

STEERAGE, - At very Low Rates. 

Steerage Tickets from Liverpool and Queenstown and all parts of Europe, at very low rates. 
Through Bills of Lading given for Belfast, Glasgow, Havre, Antwerp and other ports on the 
Continent, and for Mediterranean ports. 

Apply, in BOSTON, to JAMES ALEXANDER, 99 State Street. 

Apply, in CHICAGO, to P. H. DU VERNET, cor. Clark and Randolph Streets. 

In NEW YOEK, for Freight and Passage, apply at Company's Office, No. 4 Bowung Green. 



RA.TES OF 
From Liverpool to Netv York or Boston. 

By Steamers not Carrying Steerage. 
FIRST CLASS, - - - £26 

SECOND CLASS, - - - 18 

Bv Steamers Carrying Steerage. 

FIRST CLASS, - 15, 17 and 21 Guineas 

According to Accommodation. 



CHAS. G. FUAKCKLYK Agent. 



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Coastwise and West India Steam Lines 

BETWEEJS^ JS-EW YORK 

^AYANA, Cuba. fJAYTiAN AND St, Domingo Ports. 

Palyeston, Texas. Pharleston, S. p. 

Wilmington, ]^. p. ^Philadelphia, ^a. 

JPSILADELPIIIA 

^OSTON AND Providence. Pharleston, ^. p. 

J^orfolk: and JIichmond, yA. 

Alexandria and "Washington, J). Q. 

NEW OnLEAWS, La., 

PEDAI^ J^^EYS AND J^^EY )^EST, J^LOI^, AND J^AYANA, pUBA. 



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6 Bowling Green, NEW YORK -12 So. Wharves, PHILADELPHIA, 




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MUTUAL INSURANCE CO., 



Office, 51 Wall St., 



NBW YOBK. 



OR&^]SriZIGI3 1843. 



Insures against Marine & Inland Navigation Risks, 

AND WILL ISSUE POLICIES MAKING LOSS PAYABLE IN ENGLAND. 
Its Assets for the Security of Policies are more than 

The profits of the Company revert to the assured, and are divided annually, upon the Pre- 
miums terminated during the year, Certificates of which are issued, bearing interest until re- 
deemed. 

JOHN D. JONES, rresident. W. H. H. MOORE, M Vice-President. 

CHARLES DENNIS, Vice-President. J. H. CHAPMAN, Secretanj. 



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No. 35 Wall Str^eet. 



INCORPORATED APRIL, 1842. 



Assets, January, 1875, 



$1,000,000. 



This Company continues to make Insurance against MARINE AND INLAND TRANS- 
PORTATION RISKS, upon Merchandise, Vessels and Freights, on the most favorable terms and 
conditions. 

For the accommodation of Shippers to European ports. Policies are issued, making loss 
payable by Rathbone Brothers & Co., at Liverpool or London, if desired. 



ELLWOOD WALTER, President. 
0. J. DESPAED, Secretary. 



A. G. MONTaOMERY, Jr., Vice-President. 
A. "W. HEGEMAN, 2d Vice-Presidents. 



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Wo. 108 BMOAJDWAYy 
OAI^ITAL, 



NBW YOMJK, 

S300,000 



WITH A LARGE SURPLUS. 



This Company insures at customary Rates of Premium against loss or damage by Fire. 

IF PREMIUMS ARE PAID IN GOLD, LOSSES WILL BE PAID IN GOLD. 

ROBERT M. C. GRAHAM, President. SAMUEL J. YOUNG, Secretary. 

North British 2^ Mercantile Insurance Company 

OF LONDON AND EDINBURGH, C. B. 

JVew Yorh Office, - - 54 Williajn St., cor. Pine. 

Paid up and Subscribed Capital $10,000,000 

Gross Fire Sui-plus and Reserve Fund 4,200,000 

Life Assets and Annuities 13,500,000 

$27,700,000 
Securities and moneys held in this country for the benefit of Policy Holder8.$ 1,600,000 
^^ Agencies in most of the principal Cities and Towns in tlie United States. 
EZRA WHITE, CHAS. E. WHITE, SAM. P. BLAGDEN, Managers. 



ROYAL 

INSURANCE COMPANY 

Of Liverpool and London, Eng. 



riRE AND LIFE. 



Office, No. 56 Wall Slreet 



Assets in Gold $17,000,000 

Assets in United States 2,000,000 

A. B. McDonald, E. F. BEDDALL, Agents. 



EQUITABLE 
FIRE 



W&, 58 Wall Street, 



INCORPORATED IN 1823. 



CASH CAPITAL $210,000 

SURPLUS 300,000 

RICHARD J. THORNE, 

President. 
JOHN MILLER, 

Secretary. 



14^ BROJlJD^^TJlY, JVJSJW^ YORK, 

ENGRAVE AND PRINT 

Bank Notes, Bonds, Bills of Exchange, Certificates of Stock, 



AND ALL KINDS OF SECURITIES. 



Albert G. Goodall, President. C. L. Van Zandt, F. Pves. & Manager. 
Theo. H. Freeland, Secretary. Geo. H. Stayner, Treasurer. 

INTEBESTIira GAMES TOE CHILDEEN. LETTER SHEETS WITH VIEWS, &c. 

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Practical Engravers, Lithographers, Printers 

AND PRINT COLOREES. 

PUBUSHERS OF RELIGIOUS AND OTHER PICTURES FOR THE TRADE, 
CHROMO & ALL OTHER KINDS OF LABELS FOR TRUNKS, CONFECTIONERIES & FANCY BOXES. 

254: and 256 CANAL STREET, NEW YORK, 

CHMSTOPHBB KIMMEL, HENRY E. P. VOIOT. 

"I«^o Brancla Offices." Establislied 181S. 

WM. EVERDELL'S SONS, 

LABELS AKI) SHOW CABSS 

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Bluing, Dry Groods, Liq^nor, Tobacco, Ham, Bacon, Lard, Coffee, Choco- 
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Es-balDlislieca. ±3x IVTO. 

O. T. RA-YN^OLDS & CO., 

Importers, Mamifacturers and Dealers in 

Paints, Oils, Varnishes $c Colors, 

ARTISTS' AND PAINTERS' MATERIALS, 

M. 106 & 108 Fulton St, New York, aM 21 Lake St,CliiGap,llL 

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